Word: relics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are, however, more articulate defenders of the city, people who boost it in public but privately worry about it. New Orleans, being something of a relic, is an extraordinarily self-conscious city, and people there are always thinking about it and fretting about how it is going to the dogs...
...sweeping ten-point program for transforming India into a socialist democracy. After she nationalized 14 private banks, angry Congress Party elders expelled her. Mrs. Gandhi promptly formed her own New Congress Party and in September, 1970 she reduced, then eliminated the privileges and privy purses of maharajas-a relic of British Empire days that was then costing the government about $6 million a year...
...Gabonese who changed my money at the bank (Union Monetaire du Afrique Centrale--a relic of the French colonial administration) laughed as told me the story. It seems that nobody in Port Gentil really cares about the central government of Gabon: Port Gentil is in effect an island at the mouth of southern Gabon's largest river. No highway or railroad connects it with the rest of Gabon and it's pretty much self-sufficient. Logs comes down the river to Port Gentil's sawmills, oil is beginning to be pumped from under Port Gentil, and ships come to take...
...building the Radcliffe gym is a relic of Radcliffe's days as an independent women's college. Fluorescent tubes hang from the ceiling now, but jets for illuminating gas still dot the walls and the leather padded running track and gym nasts rings are definitely the stuff of a bypassed era of athletics...
...recent years Parr had become something of a relic. Old friends gradually began to turn their backs. A hint of bitterness would creep into Parr's piercing blue eyes as he saw his power slipping away...