Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reported TIME Correspondent Edward Hughes from Morawice last week, is a little signboard in the center of the village square, which .bears faded posters of another government, with pictures of Warsaw's Russian-built "Palace of Culture." The new attitude towards the party was summed up by an ancient pitchfork-brandishing farmer: "I'm my own boss now and when some party man comes out to tell me to go out to rake hay for the nation, I have a big needle for his back...
...three leading families of Zghorta are the rich and influential Franjiehs, the ancient and patrician Karams, and the fertile Moawads, who outnumber each of the others. For centuries the three feuding clans have been fighting-now pairing off in expedient alliances, now breaking away to fight again. In recent years a fourth clan, the Dweihis. has risen from plebeian obscurity to join the fray. The newcomers entered the ring with considerable credentials. "About 70% of the criminal cases arising in the Zghorta district," said a court officer in Tripoli, some five miles away, "involve members of the Dweihi clan...
...square foot than any other great city." But few people seem to care. While sky highways are built over much of the North End, and a parking lot will some day burrow underneath the Common, the middle mostly gathers years. When the Museum of Natural History left its ancient quarters by Berkeley Street, the building wasn't destroyed as it should have been; Bonwit-Teller's came, with curtains, and the building looks even older yet. Lacking high buildings, long vistas, and straight or numbered streets, Boston boasts cow tunnels along with as dirty a jail and as complicated...
...woody top of Mount Koya, south of Osaka in Japan, are scores of ancient temples and pilgrim hostels that make up the spiritual center of the influential Buddhist sect called Shingon-shu. Last week the shaven-pated monks of Shingon-shu climbed out of their black robes into a strange new garb called a baseball uniform, began pitching a stitched leather ball around and swinging at it with a wooden club called...
...against an influenza epidemic has only lately become possible-or been considered worthwhile. For centuries, while far deadlier pestilences were commonplace, the influence seemed unimportant, usually killed only the aged and already infirm (it was jocularly dubbed the "new acquaintance," "gentle correction" or even "jolly rant"). But as the ancient scourges were being brought under control, influenza occasionally became more lethal. Finally, in 1918-19, it erupted in a global pandemic, one of the worst disease disasters in history, which claimed at least 15 million dead-many of them, unaccountably, young adults in their prime. Still the cause of influenza...