Word: ancestors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Country, was far from quiet. In fact, there seemed to be more shades underfoot than on the windows, which mysteriously slammed shut while chairs rattled unaided across floors, drawers floated out of place, and cameras smashed inexplicably. Director Elio Petri swore he bumped into-or through-a long-deceased ancestor of the villa's owner on the staircase one night. All those unnerving incidents soon had the stagehands muttering, and production lagged five days behind schedule until Vanessa and Co-Star Franco Nero, her constant companion since they made Camelot together, calmed the crew by holding midnight...
Today's ROTC is a complex and changing institution. It still uses the purposes for which it was founded 50 years ago to justify its status in American education, but the modern ROTC little resembles its ancestor of 1916. Thus, it is likely that American colleges will continue to re-examine their relationship with ROTC
...concert celebrates the 160th anniversary of the Pierian Sodality of 1808, the HRO's ancestor...
...animal species that depend on foliage for food and concealment and are already close to extinction. One of these is the douc langur, a colorful monkey that lives almost entirely on leaves. Also endangered are the Indo-Chinese gibbon and the rare kouprey, a remnant of a mid-Miocene ancestor of modern cattle...
...three weeks here I've gotten to know some worthwhile people. One is an ARVN officers who saw some of the early Dak To fighting. His family owns some hillside vegetable gardens and he took me through them. Pointing to an ancestor shrine (which looks like bird stations on post) standing in the middle of a field he told me how much he hoped he'd be somebody's ancestor...