Word: gushes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...marchers, most of whom are Orthodox Jews, belong to Israel's Gush Emunin (Group of the Faithful), who take Jehovah's commandment from the Book of Genesis with fanatic literalness. To them, it means that Jews, as Abraham's descendants, have a God-given birthright to the West Bank of the Jordan. For it was at Bethel that the Lord is said to have commanded Abraham...
...plain, with the Sinai mountains to the east and, across the Gulf of Suez, Egypt's Red Sea hills barely visible to the west. The town is just 30 miles south of the spot where, according to local tradition, Moses struck the rock and made water gush forth. Instead of striking a rock, Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Ahmed Ezzedin Hilal turned a valve and a jet of black crude spurted across the sand. "God be praised," Hilal said. "I cannot express in words the happiness I feel...
...visitors from America had come to pay a courtesy call on Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and his stylish wife Imelda. Dutifully diplomatic, they praised Autocrat Marcos for his leadership and vision. The President was flattered, and one of the guests continued to gush. "Looking at the way you chose your wife, I can see you're not so dumb," said Muhammad Ali. Joe Frazier flinched, but Marcos quickly counterpunched. "Looking at yours," he informed the heavyweight champ, "I can see you're not so far behind...
...giving up territory. We expose ourselves to a security danger, and the very strong element of U.S. pressure is tantamount to a dictate from the U.S." Adds Shmuel Tamir, head of the right-wing Free Center faction: "This is not an agreement. It is unilateral withdrawal." The right-wing Gush Emunim movement is planning a giant anti-Kissinger demonstration when the Secretary of State takes his shuttle to Jerusalem. "Kissinger is a disaster," says Gershon Shafat. "His priorities are: one, Kissinger; two, the President; three, the U.S. Israel is nowhere among them...
...money-public money, ironically, appropriated to give aid and comfort to the Indigent aged. In 1966 the Federal Government began to pay for nursing-home care through Medicaid, a federal-state program that last year spent $4.4 billion of its $12.7 billion budget on the elderly. The sudden gush of cash set loose a nursing-home boom as many entrepreneurs, many of them interested only in the bottom line, rushed into the business...