Word: babylon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...again a nation equal to all the others -and much finer than many." Cyrus the Great provided a handy peg. Iran ("home of the Aryans") was settled by an Aryan tribe from what is now southern Russia. Cyrus, a leader of the Achaemenian dynasty of the tribe, accepted Babylon's surrender in 539 B.C., and by the next year had founded an empire that at its height stretched from present-day India to the Aegean, and from the Danube to the Nile...
...Personal History, one of the six books he has written in four years, Ben-Gurion shows a deep sense of the continuity of Jewish history. Describing the 1948 war of independence, he writes: "We have more than once met Egypt and Assyria, Babylon and Aram, Canaan and Amalek, but always singly; never in 3,500 years was the whole Middle East united against us." When Ben-Gurion first came to Israel from Poland in 1906 under his original name, David Gryn (his Hebrew name means "son of a lion cub"), he found a land "both loved and desolate"-and underpopulated...
...Bernadette, 23, was too pregnant (by a man she has refused to name) to march, so she rode in a loudspeaker car. Her political stock has clearly been lifted by the crisis and by her return to the barricades. As one priest joked, "If she were the hoor of Babylon, we'd elect...
...Saxophonist Bob Houlehan. In junior highs and high schools throughout the U.S., where old-fashioned swing over rock-rhythm sections is the vogue, an estimated 16,000 jazz bands are taking over from marching bands as an intramural way of life. Says Irving Bard, music director of the West Babylon Junior High School in Long Island: "My rehearsal band comes in every morning at 7:30 a.m., and the absenteeism is zero...
Watching Flesh is not unlike riding the Long Island Railroad from Lynbrook to Babylon: there are a couple of interesting shopping centers along the way, but in the end, one Citgo station is pretty much like another...