Word: abednego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Iraq, carved just 35 years ago out of the Ottoman Empire's holdings in the valley of the Tigris and the Euphrates-the land once known as Mesopotamia. The oil that calked the walls of Babylon and may have fired the furnace through which Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego walked unscathed now bubbles through huge pipelines to the Mediterranean. Its flow is so fabulous that it makes Iraq (pop. 5,000,000) the world's sixth petroleum-producing country...
...there, all right, and has been since recorded history. Noah caulked his Ark "within and without with pitch" taken from bitumen springs in the Tigris and Euphrates Valley. Just a few hundred yards from where Nebuchadnezzar, "full of fury," cast Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego into the fiery, oil-fed furnace, Iraq Petroleum (then called Turkish Petroleum) in 1927 blew in its first well with a gush that could not be controlled for three days. Iraq's proven reserve (7.5 billion barrels in the Kirkuk field alone) is within respectable distance of the great Kuwait and Saudi Arabian holdings...
...spectacle of brother murdering brother. But violent David King in his dream is King David clashing with Absalom; and scoffing, self-pitying Peter Able is Isaac being led to slaughter. Finally Corporal Adams, the responsible man seeking light and truth, sees David, Peter and himself as Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, all cast into the fiery furnace, all sharing-and surviving-a fearful ordeal...
Climax of their dream-allegories acted out on the straw-strewn altar steps is the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Instead of Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace "heated seven times more than it was wont to be heated," three of the modern heroes walk unscathed through atomic fury to discover that "to be strong beyond all action is the strength to have...