Word: ephraim
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...reached treacherous Scorpion's Pass, 60 miles south of Beersheba, and started up the grade like a clumsy beetle. As it neared a stone monument, erected to honor the Jews who fell in 1948 to win the Negeb, it was struck by a volley of gunfire. Ephraim Fuerstenberg, the driver, slumped dead; the bus rolled to a stop. Four passengers raced wildly through the door; a second burst spat from a hillock, and they fell lifeless onto the bleached clay. A bottle of cologne broke in the pocket of Hanna Kirshenbaum, 29, mother of three, and mingled the scent...
...Played Dead." Two khaki-clad Arabs raced for the bus, leaped inside and sprayed it with Tommy guns. A soldier saved Ephraim's five-year-old daughter by throwing himself across her body, but he was riddled. Then the Arabs grabbed revolvers and fired into anything that twitched. "I played dead," said Miriam Lesser, a waitress. "One of the Arabs dragged me up by my hair to see if I was alive, then shot at my head but missed." A moment later, the assassins were gone...
...eleven dead and a woman and a child critically wounded. Three shammed death. For a long time they dared not move because they heard noises. Later they learned that the sounds had been made by a dying man's feet drumming the bus floor in his last agony. Ephraim's daughter whimpered a few times; her father and mother were dead. The vultures were swooping lower and lower when an army truck twisted up the road and onto the terrible scene...
Chief champion of the Kensington stone is Hjalmar Holand, 81, of Ephraim, Wis., who has made a career out of writing and lecturing about it. His principal argument: Farmer Ohman was too unlettered (six weeks of schooling) to fake the runic inscription, and he had no books to help him. Skeptical scholars have pointed to many oddities in the stone's language, but this pale, negative tactic has not laid the ghosts of the Minnesota Vikings. Both popular and learned belief in it is still strong. Professor Wahlgren felt that positive action was needed...
Reveille. In Birmingham, England, Ephraim Morgan got a divorce from his 47-year-old wife on grounds of cruelty after he charged that she vacuumed the floor outside his bedroom door every...