Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prime Minister even proclaimed that Tiran, the ancient Yotvat, a small island in the Gulf of Aqaba dominating passage from the Red Sea to Israel's new port of Elath, belonged to its captors. To prove Israel's historic claims, Ben-Gurion paused in his rolling Hebrew periods and read out in the original Greek the historian Procopius' 6th century description of the island: "There the Hebrews have lived since ancient times and govern themselves...
...little-known Chief Storekeeper at the College's NROTC unit may have discovered in his travels what philosophers and scientists have been searching for through the ages--the key to the Universe. The Chief, Charles R. Ridd, is reputedly the only man in the Western Hemisphere to master the ancient art of Persian rugmaking, and he claims to have penetrated the highest mysteries of life through the practice of this...
When the Chief realized that he had mastered the ancient Persian art, he decided to look for a relation between his relevations and ancient astrological insights. He has since digested over 1000 works on astrology, and discovered that the universal order which is "perfect, is pictured perfectly in astrology." He reasoned that the fundamental truths which he had found in concentration while weaving were also present in astrology...
Sixth Day. The desert blitz ended. Israeli forces marched triumphantly into the ancient and grubby city of Gaza, where blinded Samson pulled down the pillars and destroyed the temple. They found only a handful of dull-eyed, curious Arabs, the raveled remnants of an Egyptian division, and the unhappy Egyptian Governor General of the Gaza Strip. He put his name to the surrender papers and handed over to Israel some 325 square miles of disputed real estate and the perplexing responsibility for some 250,000 ragged, ill-housed, ill-fated Palestinian refugees...
Wonderful Hour. Savage reprisals did not outlast the first tense hours of freedom. More typical of anti-AVH demonstrations was the ancient lady dressed in mourning, carrying in one hand a huge black flag the size of a bed sheet and in the other a little bunch of white asters, who marched at a funeral pace three miles to the AVH School for Communism. Naturally the AVH had long since departed, but the old lady had a wonderful hour tossing framed portraits of Lenin and Stalin and clouds of Communist propaganda out of the windows...