Word: assyrians
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...four parchments brought to America six months ago by the Assyrian Archbishop, the Lameck scroll is the only one of the group written in the almost forgotten language of Aramaic, the language spoken by Christ...
...typewriter which can write in English, Russian or Assyrian Cuneiform-for businesslike archeologists...
...Holy City's sun-baked walls and domes had dominated the ages. Doomed to repeated conquest, it had heard the clatter of Egyptian cavalry, the rattle of Persian scythe-wheeled chariots, had known Assyrian and Babylonian, the Macedonian phalanx and the Roman legion, Seleucid and Seljuk, Crusader, Saracen and Ottoman Turk. One conqueror supplanted the other, or declined to impotent passivity. But Jerusalem still remained, permanent in the perspective of history, as the city sometimes appears in a sudden lifting of the haze, crowning Zion...
Wright said he got his basic idea from Assyrian ziggurats (pyramidal temples with outside ramps ascending spirally). Eventually he decided that "the ziggurat is pessimistic," because it is pyramidal, so he turned it upside down to get his own building. Pointing to his model, he said triumphantly: "This is pure optimism...
Gift of Tongues. Everywhere waiters, clerks and plain citizens who could speak foreign languages were suddenly popular. The Yellow Cab company announced that it had 70 drivers capable of conversing in alien tongues, including Assyrian. Correspondents would be offered every help in the way of workrooms, telegraph service, reference material-even a volunteer corps of ex-newspapermen ready and anxious to substitute as rewrite men for correspondents bowled over by the bottle. The city was prepared to offer them plenty of entertainment-cocktail parties, ferry and airplane rides, press cards good for squaring minor infractions...