Word: abraham
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...couldn't get a baby sitter"). Di Salle hurried him upstairs to a guest bedroom. There they were joined by Ohio Democratic Chairman William L. Coleman and Kennedy's new strategist, Connecticut Democratic Chairman John Bailey, on loan from Connecticut's Ken nedyite Governor Abraham Ribicoff...
This was the place where Abraham offered up his son Isaac as sacrifice, and was restrained by an angel of the Lord. Solomon is said to have used the rock as the foundation of his temple. Herod built there the temple from which Jesus drove the money-changers. Mohammed rested by the rock after his night flight from Mecca...
Connecticut's Abraham A. Ribicoff, 49, onetime police-court judge and Congressman (1949-53), has gained impressive stature in his five years in office, pushed a broad reform program through the now Democratic legislature. He got a balanced budget (but slid from a 1957 surplus of $32.3 million to a deficit this year of $10.5 million), court reform, a tough law on automatic suspension for convicted speeders, a tourist-luring ad campaign, abolition of the 300-year-old county-government system. A Jew, he has since 1956 gone into other states-last week into California...
...tenth day of the hadj began the joyous feast of El Idha, commemorating Abraham's near sacrifice of his son Isaac, and Ahmed walked with his fellow pilgrims to the nearby village of Mina, where each must sacrifice an animal. Some 500,000 beasts are imported each year; ordinary pilgrims cut the throat of a goat for about $20; the rich may kill a cow or even a camel. The meat is supposed to be distributed to the poor, but for want of transport, thousands of carcasses are left rotting on the ground. The Saudi Arabian government is considering...
Last week, Ahmed Murad still glowed with the grace his hadj had brought him. "It was a gift of God to see all those people around Mount Arafat," he said. "There was no me and no you, no Abraham, no Jesus, no Mohammed. Just God alone...