Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ritual & Blunder. Moving to order the political disorder left in the Middle East by the withdrawal of France and Britain, the U.S. briefly seized the initiative by proclaiming the Eisenhower Doctrine of aid to any Middle Eastern land asking for help against Communist attack. The President's pledge and the Sixth Fleet's presence gave Jordan's spunky young King Hussein heart to eject ministers talking of Soviet alliance and to line his country up in the ranks of the West. But when the Soviets countered with a coup that put proCommunists on top of Syria's army...
...Indonesian officials in Djakarta announced that because the U.S. had delayed so long in answering their request for arms, they may send a mission to Eastern Europe to see if they can buy Communist arms to beef up their obsolete arsenal...
...flight of light planes hovered like hummingbirds over the green eastern jungle of Peru last week, dipping into tiny airstrips and steaming rivers to pick up waiting passengers, then heading back to a tin-roofed hangar by remote Lake Yarinacocha. They discharged their passengers, U.S. Protestant missionaries and their Indian assistants, darted back for more. One of the world's most gallant little airlines thus brought together the 300 missionaries and workers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics to S.I.L.'s yearly refresher course...
Later, grown to manhood, Abraham migrated to Canaan, on the Mediterranean's eastern shore, with his childless wife Sarah, his brother's son Lot, his slaves and herds. The land he found was anything but the primitive pastoral society Bible scholars assumed until recently. The excavation of the ancient cities of Ugarit and Mari in the 1930s shows a culture already old in Abraham's day, which was celebrated for its music and art, bronze work and historical and religious epics. Diplomatic and commercial documents preserved on clay tablets indicate that Abraham, a rich man now, must...
...Boasting half a dozen All-Americans to beef them up, the Eastern All-Stars charged into San Francisco for the annual Shrine charity game, ran smack into a squad of Westerners who had not bothered to read their press clippings. Led by Arkansas' Gerald Nesbitt, the West whipped the East...