Word: issa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Islam does not maintain that its prophet, Mohamed, was divine; it does not deny Jesus (Issa), but calls Him the divinely sent redeemer rather than the Son of God. It permits limited polygamy,* strictly enforces prohibition, but believes in a paradise full of rich, non-intoxicating wines...
...General Andrei Yeremenko, seven-times-wounded hero of Stalingrad, Smolensk, the Crimea. Between Drissa and Pskov, quiescent up to last week, lay the last thin strip of Soviet territory still in German hands. Attacking on this 100-mile front, Yeremenko made gains up to 25 miles. On the narrow Issa River, the Germans blew up their ferries and crossings, but Yeremenko's doughty men swarmed across on small boats, rafts and logs...