The notion that sports can heal wounds between nations may be as old as the hills, but it remains, as worthy as it may be, an ideal whose time, alas, has not yet come.
32.
Hummus in the area is as old as the hills; it can be considered Levantine to a similar extent that Mom, flag and apple pie is considered warm and fuzzy to another nationality.
33.
In the first Grimm version of " Hansel, " the witch is simply a " woman as old as the hills " _ an extreme example of the human, a withered image of who we already are.
34.
Frodo's uncle Bilbo Baggins, who had adopted him, had made up the words " to a tune that was as old as the hills, and taught it to Frodo as they walked in the lanes of the Water-valley and talked about Adventure ".
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Both " dance-songs " were written by the black pianist, composer and dancer Perry Bradford and were based on a dance done in Jacksonville, Florida, " way back . " One professional dancer stated, " That dance is as old as the hills ."
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Conrad is the novelist of man in extreme situations . " Those who read me, " he wrote in the preface to " A Personal Record ", " know my conviction that the world, the temporal world, rests on a few very simple ideas; so simple that they must be as old as the hills.
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They have felt in their body and bone that exploitation is as old as the hills and forest surrounding them . yet they celebrate the joys of life; they drink and dance and sing; they find joy in nature, in buds and flowers, in green leaves, in the chirping of birds, in the swift-flowing streams and in the mist covered hills.
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The Boy is sent to India, not having met his parents'expectations at Sandhurst, and becomes a subaltern in an Indian regiment . " This Boy the tale is as old as the hills came out and took all things seriously " : he quarrels, and remembers disagreements; he gambles; he flirts, and is too serious; he loses money and health; he is reprimanded by his Colonel.
