Word: beastly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against Crusades. When the Nazis were destroyed, Dibelius might have felt that the monster of Revelation was finally laid to rest. But, with most of his flock under a Communist government, he quickly found that the beast had reappeared, and in even more threatening form...
...Revelation 13:1,4: "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy . . . and they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with...
Mastodons ranged all over America as late as 5,000 years ago, but paleontologists have found only small traces of their remote ancestors-a few teeth, part of a tusk, and small fragments of jawbone. From these scanty remains, the scientists deduced that the beast stood some 7-ft. tall at the withers, was a little smaller than later mastodons and a little bulkier than modern elephants. Now, if Dr. Simpson was correct, they would be able to reconstruct the whole Miomastodon head...
...Naples, where he is hard at work on a new film called Man, Beast and Virtue, 37-year-old Wonder Boy Orson Welles confided to a reporter: "I am the only middle-aged genius in the business to whom nothing comes easy...
Life & the Living. Where James ended The Beast in the Jungle with a gesture of despair, Novelist Lanning allows his hero to discover that life is never beyond the reach of the living. He will marry Blanche too late ... but not too late...