Word: honeying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dangled from a scaffold in front of Amman's old Roman amphitheater (which survives from the days when Amman's name was Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love). In the public squares of Nablus, Tulkarm and Hebron-cities of that ancient land of Canaan whose milk and honey Moses' twelve spies once surveyed for the children of Israel-three other Guardsmen were hanged at the same hour. All had been convicted as spies last December, accused of having been caught crossing the border with maps and reports of Jordan troop dispositions. Their public execution last week...
...Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (whose early resignation was now freely predicted by the British press) tried to put a hopeful face on it by saying that "certain practical lessons have been learned about the consequences of the canal being out of operation." Jabbing his finger toward Macmillan, Labor's honey-voiced Aneurin Bevan demolished Lloyd with a single blow. "There is no reason to attack the monkey," sneered Bevan, "when the organ-grinder is present...
...read a congratulatory telegram from Songstresses Patience and Prudence, whose Texan uncles helped Senator-elect Yarborough's campaign. They talked of sending off a wire to conservative Democrat Daniel, who is no Yarborough fan, simply quoting that line from the P. and P. hit record: "So long my honey, goodbye my dear, gonna get along without...
This is not to say that there was no connection between the Essene community at Qumran and the first Christians. John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness near Qumran at a time when the community was flourishing; he was, like the covenanters, an ascetic, living on locusts and wild honey, and proclaiming, like the Essenes, Isaiah's words about making "straight in the desert a highway for our God." It has been suggested that John had been adopted as a child and raised by the Essenes, as was their custom. "They neglect wedlock," writes Josephus, "but choose out other...
...actors who have tried to live in the image of his heroes. The book is shot through with the sentimental stoicism of the Hemingway man, and with the hedonist worship of the "art of living," which calls for everything just so-the old-fashioneds must have a touch of honey, the mustache scissors must be of 18th century French make, even the final, fatal razor must be a Rolls...