Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chapter 12, in which Abraham's wife Sarah is taken by the Pharaoh in Egypt, the scroll adds a detailed account of Sarah's beauty, describing her feet, legs, face and hair...
...Ohio, Governor Lausche was so impressed by Ed Darby's incessant questioning that he winced whenever our correspondent took out his notebook. One evening, addressing the Dayton chapter of the B'nai B'rith, the governor spoke of the state's system of using penitentiary inmates, awaiting parole, as trusties about the governor's mansion. He noted that a trusty had chauffeured him from the Capitol to Dayton. Later, in a restaurant, the wife of one of the B'nai B'rith officers leaned over to the governor and, with a sidelong glance...
...chapter of Harry Truman's memoirs that deals with the firing of General Douglas MacArthur during the Korean war, one word instantly caught Douglas MacArthur's eye: "insubordination." MacArthur boiled up in anger. "Now, for the first time," he wrote in an answer to Truman in last week's LIFE, "[Mr. Truman] bases his action on what he terms insubordination, one of the most serious of all military offenses and one which throughout our military annals has never been made without the officer concerned being given a hearing and the opportunity to defend himself...
...from being part of the Book of Lamech, the pages were an Aramaic version of Chapters 12 to 15 of Genesis, interwoven with stories and legends about the Patriarchs. As scholars examined the scroll further, it became clear that all of it deals with the Book of Genesis in the same order as the accepted text. The fragment mentioning Lamech that had misled the scholars was evidently part of Chapter 5 of Genesis...
...already tried and accepted in the consciousness of a people. Both erudition and genius are necessary to utilize be the full potential of this tradition in both language and myth, Tolkien has been able to set forth his story in a heroic style not only appropriate but effective. His chapter endings are indicative...