Word: gluecks
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Died. Dr. Nelson Glueck, 70, archaeologist and Reform rabbi who thought the Bible a reliable map to buried historical treasure and proved it by digging his way to more than 1,500 archaeological finds in Transjordan and the Negev (TIME cover, Dec. 13, 1963); in Cincinnati. Dr. Glueck was called both "the scholar with a shovel" and "the rabbi with a rifle" because of his fearless exploring in the sniper-infested desert of strife-torn Israel...