Word: bashan
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...where socialists have always found solace. Ezekiel explains that the Sodomites' sin was that they had "pride, fullness of bread and abundance of idleness" but did not "strengthen the hand of the poor and needy" -- quite apart from any "abomination" (16: 49-50). Amos addresses the rich people of Bashan, who "oppress the poor, which crush the needy," thundering that "the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish-hooks" (4: 1-2) (which puts even "necklacing " in a new perspective...
...Sadat's visit to Jerusalem was brilliant," says Tali Bashan, 21, a political science student at Hebrew University, "but it was no argument for our making large concessions." Adds Geula Cohen, a Knesset member and an old comrade of the Premier's in the Irgun movement: "Begin didn't think. He gave away the sovereignty of the Sinai like a present, without getting anything in return...
...common in Lawrence, Mass., a skinny Yankee youngster in knee pants worked his way eellike through an agitated mob to the foot of the bandstand. He looked up at a one-eyed giant who slashed at the air with great fists, roared like the Bull of Bashan: "Only by one big union of the working class and mass action can we hope for the final victory ... I would smash the ballot box with...
...midst of its rejoicing following United Nations approval of Palestine partition, the University Zionist Society announced last night that it had "adapted" Le Havot he Bashan, an agricultural colony in the southern part of the Holy Land...
...Oriental climate and unctuous lives of that infuriate people, gross good things were, coming to overwhelm me with Benedictions for which I had not bargained. Great oxen and camels and concubines were panting close behind me, he-goats and she-goats and rams of the breed of Bashan. My barns should burst their doors with plenty, and all my paths drop fatness. My face should be smeared with the oil of rejoicing. . . .My feet should be dipped in butter; I should sit under my fig-tree with my heel on the neck of my enemy, and my eyes stand...