Word: ephraim
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...Strom Thurmond, who holds the alltime Senate wind record with an uninterrupted 24-hr. 18-min. speech during the 1957 civil rights debate; North Carolina's Sam Ervin, who is ready with a waist-high pile of books on constitutional law and a heap of stories about Uncle Ephraim and Job Hicks; and Louisiana's Russell Long, whose father Huey once rambled on for 151 hours about the delights of potlikker and corn pones, finally gave up only because his colleagues denied him a "gentleman's quorum" so he could seek out a men's room...
KING JAMES 7:8 Ephraim is a cake not turned...
...Ephraim is half-baked-scorched on one side and uncooked on the other...
...familiar with the latest discoveries but willing to use them." Begun seven years ago, the Anchor Bible will probably not be completed until 1969, although the first four books are scheduled for publication next fall. Judging by the section now ready for the press, Genesis as translated by Dr. Ephraim Speiser of the University of Pennsylvania, the Anchor Bible will have a brisk, colloquial tone far removed from the ornate measures of the classic English versions. Sample comparative verses...
...farm. To possess it. the sons wish their father dead, brother plots against brother, a young woman marries a fanatical old man, seduces his son to obtain an heir, and murders the infant to repossess the son's love. George C. Scott plays the fire-breathing old father Ephraim with monomaniacal force. As the woman, Colleen Dewhurst achieves a masterly transitional shading between feline will and wiles and the whole-souled vulnerability of love. Son Eben is played by Rip Torn, who unfortunately adopts a tone of flat understatement and clenched-nerves hysteria that tends to throw the play...