Word: gilead
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...football defeat had to be swallowed bald and whole. But there was balm in Gilead. Equally bald and equally whole stood forth the headline that proved that, although Harvard had lost a battle, it was winning the war. The headline read: "Crimson Chessmen Rock West Point Forces...
...Fields of Gilead? But to work out a settlement would take cooler tempers then now prevail. For one thing, both Jews and Arabs would demand proof, in fact as well as on paper, that their contending forces were too evenly matched for either to dispose quickly of the other. There would be fighting in Palestine, then perhaps a stalemate which might lead to a settlement...
...Irgun Commander Menachim Beigin said that he would stop underground activities in Israel. But he warned that his soldiers would fight for "all" of Palestine, including Transjordan, "until the Jewish flag will fly over the Tower of David in Jerusalem and Jewish peasants will work in the fields of Gilead [in Transjordan]." He warned the Israelite government not to make "further concessions" to the Arabs. Arab leaders, for their part, have not yet shown any willingness to live with the accomplished fact of a Jewish nation. Said Egypt's King Farouk last week: "I cannot and will not tolerate...
...Gilead said unto him, "Art thou an Ephraimite?" If he said, "Nay" then they said unto him, "Say now shibboleth," and he said "Sibboleth" for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him and slew him at the passages of Jordan.-Judges...
...Jeremiah? "Surely, there must be some balm in Gilead for a coal miner...