Word: documenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June war, Israel would have been willing to give back most of the land its army had conquered in exchange for one simple document: a meaningful peace treaty with the Arabs. But the Arabs would not deal on Israel's terms, which included face-to-face negotiations-and the terms have since been getting steadily tougher. Just how tough they have become was spelled out last week by Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol. In a major policy speech before the opening session of the Knesset (parliament), Eshkol made it plain, in case anyone has recently had any doubts, that...
...scroll is a series of commands to the people of Israel. Since nearly half of them deal with detailed instructions on the building and ritual maintenance of the temple, Yadin has tentatively named the document the "Temple Scroll." The minute specifications call for the construction of three courts in the form of concentric squares; the two outer courts must each have twelve gates, named for the twelve tribes of Israel. Curiously, it also requires that public toilets should be constructed 1,400 meters northwest of the temple-which, notes Yadin slyly, would situate the lavatories today somewhere near...
...verse, Yeats diagnosed his age as a time when the best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity. In this spirit, Leonard Woolf, British Lib-Lab intellectual, publisher, politician and husband of Novelist Virginia, has written the fourth installment of his autobiography. Its value as a document of an age and a class grows with each volume...
PUSEY: (interrupting) Well, that, from our point of view, that's simply a non-document. It has no status...
...members of the campaign expect a long, hard fight," DiCara said, "but it is worth it since this road is the only one open to revision of an aged and clumsy document...