Word: jaffa
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...Friar Felix made two expeditions to the Holy Land, in 1480 and 1483. In both cases he crossed the Alps and took ship at Venice. On his first trip, the ship was a ratty old bireme captained by Agostino Contarini, one of the most notorious profiteers on the Jaffa...
...least dispute over beds and boundaries might set whole parties of pilgrims against each other, with daggers drawn. Let a man come in late, and he would have his light splattered out by the contents of a neighbor's chamber pot. After the pilgrims finally landed at Jaffa, they were "rushed round the usual Holy Places in the utmost haste and hardly given any time to rest." Dissatisfied, Felix made up his mind to take the trip again...
Gilbert E. Mottla '32 of Cambridge and Reginald H. Zalles of Boston, former instructor in philosophy at Harvard, were chosen as vice chairmen. John C. Palmer A.M. '42 of Somerville, Lawrence M. Jaffa 3 Div. of Pembroke, and Miss Elizabeth Russo, Radcliffe '50, of Cambridge were named to the State Executive Committee...
...City, Jewish and Arab soldiers chatted amiably back & forth across narrow strips of no man's land. One Arab Legion captain, lifting a glass of tea, called out: "May Allah grant that the end of the war come before my next glass of tea!" Near the Jaffa Gate, unarmed Legionnaires sat dangling their legs over the wall of the Old City. In the streets below, Arab soldiers were dancing, without swords, a Bedouin sword dance. Jewish and Arab civilians even staged a football match. The Israeli team...
...Lebanese village muktars (village chiefs) were giving banquets for Israeli staff officers, who in turn supplied them with sugar and other foods scarce in Lebanon. At Beersheba in the Negeb desert, 19 sheiks, with a solemn signing with rings, had petitioned Israel for protection. An Arab leader in a Jaffa jail complained to his lawyer that he had been skipped in Israel's recent census...