Word: dan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cautiously an Israeli patrol advanced along the narrow gravel road, sweeping for mines. Immediately to its left were the bubbling springs that form the headwaters of the River Dan. A few feet to its right, a white plastic ribbon marked the Syrian border. From the grey stone hills beyond, two shots rang out, and suddenly the whole area erupted into battle. Syrian mortar shells fell on three Israeli villages; Israeli jets bombed two Syrian settlements. Altogether, 10 people were killed and 37 wounded...
...real issue was not the road at all, but water. Israel and the Arab states are contending for the Jordan River waters, and the Dan in turn supplies half the total volume of the Jordan. Biblically, the headwaters were granted to Israel by a divine deed registered in the Book of Judges. Historically, Israel's claims go back to a 1923 agreement when the headwaters were placed inside Palestine. The trouble is that the Syrian-Israel border was vaguely drawn and has been disputed ever since...
...cold weather may have had something to do with the quarterbacks' ineffectiveness, but Zimmerman's own particular gremlin was Dan Begel, a Yale back who intercepted one of his passes and broke up several others. Zimmerman redeemed himself by running a number of quarterback sneaks for big gains, adding a good deal to the Crimson's total of 193 yards rushing...
Through Waltzing Dan's room troop: his termagant sister (Pert Kelton), a scold who would rather be righteous than right; a mournful Jewish crony, much dismayed that a recently deceased and cremated friend might be occupying the ashtray at his elbow; a refreshingly downbeat priest to whom God is all Greek and man is vile, and a medical fraud who takes Polaroid pictures of his patients at each visit to trace their rate of decay. These flavorful characters are impaled on a toothpick plot like canapes. The story that should make the play go makes it stop -whether Waltzing...
Joining Gales in the Yale backfield are the team's top ground gainer, fullback Dan Barrows, and a very fast halfback, Court Shevelson, whose performance has been hindered by injuries. Defensive end Mark Young heads a line of unexceptional size...