Word: anciently
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...Sensing their increasing dispensability on the home front, and tired of picking up dropped socks, women rushed into the work force. They haven't achieved full economic independence by any means (women still earn only 75% of what men do), but more and more of them are realizing that ancient female dream--a room, or better yet, a condo of their...
...scholar of ancient history will discover these words penned by a gay writer named Fenton Johnson back in 1996: "The mystery of love and life and death is really grander and more glorious than human beings can grasp, much less legislate." He will put this sentence onto a bumper sticker. The message will spread. We will realize that the sexes can't live without each other, but neither can they be joined at the hip. We will grow...
...teams will have folded long before the end of the century, and only these four megalopolises will have the population base, and thus the cash, to support utility infielders making $100 million a year. The minor leagues will flourish too, in such cities as Toronto and Seattle, where ancient ballparks like the Skydome and Safeco Field will allow fans to remember simpler times, when the game was pure and hitters actually had to run the bases, back before the advent of designated feet...
...village, and both Johnny and Luther are Baptists who claim to base their moral guidelines on Christian beliefs. But "when their soldiers died in the struggle against the Burmese, they moved backward to the old gods," says Sunai Phasuk of Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University. Christian teachings combined seamlessly with ancient native messianic traditions to build up belief in the twins' mystical powers...
...author himself subtitles his book A Prophesy, but the playfulness of the opening pages does not seem to herald a serious bout of forecasting. A character named Plato, who serves as the orator of London, lectures his fellow citizens about ancient history, particularly the fragmentary evidence that has survived from the Age of Mouldwarp (A.D. 1500-2300). He mentions the name Charles Dickens and the only book by this author known to have survived, albeit in mutilated form: "The novel is entitled On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles D--. The rest of the name...