Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Other scholars think Sinai is in the volcanic Mount Seir range in southern Israel, which would account for the "thunders and lightenings, and a thick cloud upon the mount" of Exodus 19:16, but the route there would not jibe with Biblical accounts...
...what has attracted attention to Simone Weil, more than her sometimes foolish, sometimes heroic life, is her inner struggle, on which she reported in books such as Waiting for God, Gravity and Grace. Her Notebooks, now published in English for the first time, are probably the most personal account of that struggle. If some of the jottings in these two volumes make her seem like the lead scout of the troubled lost battalion of agnosticism, many more confirm a rare and remarkable religious vocation...
...respective places of worship to give thanks to God and prayerful contemplation to those eternal truths and universal principles of Holy Scripture which have inspired such measure of true greatness as this nation has achieved. And let us, as the beneficiaries of this greatness, give a good account of our stewardship by helping those in need and by rendering aid, through our religious organizations and by other means, to the ill, the destitute and the oppressed in foreign lands...
...couch, the fourth in the pine-paneled hall. Then a defense pathologist discovered bits of flesh on the ceiling, found fragments of Violet's jacket in the gaping hole in the couch. If Violet shot her husband-as she insisted-when he was on the couch, how account for the human tissue on the ceiling and Violet's jacket threads in the couch? And had she really aimed and fired a shotgun at herself? And, if her story was correct that she fired three times, who reloaded the gun and fired the fourth shot? Finally, Lawyer Weyer asked...
...West away from the cliché specialists with The Big Sky, a knowing, realistic book about the early traders, trappers and scouts that was as unashamedly rich in poetic evocation as it was in gritty plain talk. In 1949 came The Way West, a sober but richly authentic account of the great migration by wagon to the Pacific coast. Guthrie's new book, These Thousand Hills, again justifies the literary claim he has staked out in that vast country, but it also shows that when a novelist sets a Western hero on a horse, he is apt. sooner...