Word: goat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spring day in 1947, among the barren Judean foothills that rise above the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, a goat in search of greener pasture precipitated the most significant religious discovery in recent history. As a Bedouin shepherd pursued the animal, he stumbled on a hidden cave. For Biblical scholars, the cave contained green pastures indeed: the first of the now famous Dead Sea Scrolls...
...Goat-The other fellow...
...Bear & the Goat...
Thank you for giving my country, Afghanistan, some of your space. I laughed with a noise like a church bell when I read that you called it "The Poor Goat" and Asia's "tortoise shell" ... I keep the article in an envelope in my desk, and I will show it to people who say: "Afghanistan? Where is that...
Talk with Molotov. All this puffing up by the goat would not much matter were it not for the "terrible bear" to the north. Three years ago, backward* Afghanistan would not have dared to make demands on bigger and well-armed Pakistan. At that time Afghanistan was governed by two of the King's pro-Western uncles. Then Daoud Shah, brother-in-law of the King, began to get ambitious. In Moscow for Stalin's funeral, Daoud talked to Molotov long and earnestly. Six months later, backed by army leaders, Daoud ousted the King's uncles, installed...