Word: ancient
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Later, around 500 B.C., the rebellious Greeks burned the buildings of the conquerors. Over these ruins the found a monumental structure believed to be part of an ancient Persian...
...John XXIII two years ago. Once the Roman Catholic Church was only too happy to acknowledge its debt to Franco, the defender of the faith in Spain's bloody civil war. He restored church property and reinstated religious education in the schools. And he held tightly to such ancient ecclesiastical privileges of the Spanish state as its right to nominate bishops. Franco, the little (5 ft. 4 in.) son of a provincial naval paymaster, even insisted on his right to march in church processions under a canopy, an honor Alfonso XIII regally disdained. And in 1954, the Archbishop...
...took a Frenchman, Joseph Saly, to put Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Fine Arts on its feet. Even Denmark's most famous sculptor, Bertel Thorvaldsen, who died in 1844, spent most of his adult life in Rome and got most of his inspiration from the ancient Greeks...
Strictly Regulated. The practice of midwifery is now strictly regulated in most nations, and a 'worldwide shortage of physicians and nurses has given the ancient profession new life. Japan alone has 40,000 midwives, many of whom staff the 143 community health centers to which rural housewives go to give birth. Swedish midwives examine each expectant mother ten times during the course of her pregnancy, lecture her on female anatomy and sexual relations, conduct classes in calisthenics, explain delivery procedure, counsel expectant fathers, even help fit contraceptive devices. When they have completed a three-year course, prospective Greek midwives...
...congress in Rome, attentive delegates plugged in United Nations-type earphones, scribbled notes as speeches were broadcast in five languages. Among the speakers: U.S. Midwife Carolyn A. Banghart, dean of Kentucky's Frontier Graduate School of Midwifery. Afterward the midwives adjourned to a reception in the ancient Baths of Diocletian, where they downed martinis, danced spiritedly with one another, and scaled a low wall to stage playful mass dashes at food-bearing Italian waiters...