Word: jehovah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) is a hairy, six-legged, doublejawed grasshopper whose behavior has been exasperation and puzzling mankind ever since his appearance in Exodus as one of the ten plagues inflicted on Egypt by a wrathful Jehovah. Much of the time he is a normal grasshopper, evenly dispersed and foraging alone. Then suddenly, and at unpredictable intervals, he turns into a mob, blackening the skies like a tornado...
...this turns out to be the last time they all got together, the thousands of Jehovah's Witnesses who gathered last week in New York City's Yankee Stadium for an international assembly will not be a bit surprised. In fact, they fully expect the cataclysm of Armageddon within the next few years. The latest calculations of this energetic, eschatology-minded sect date the end of the world in autumn...
...prediction linked to that year. What is more, Christ's promise that "this generation will not pass away till all these things take place" means that the generation alive in 1914, when the last days began, will see Armageddon. As they eye the thinning ranks of that generation, Jehovah's Witnesses are well aware the time limit is running...
...leave Castro's Cuba. Gonzalez, better known as Kid Gavilan, the bolo-punching world welterweight boxing champion from 1951 to 1954, hopped a refugee airlift flight to Miami last week, leaving behind three sons, his mother, and wives Nos. 1, 2 and 3. Says "the Keed," now a Jehovah's Witness: "I don't think, if I had known God's Word, I would have become a boxer." He suffers from cataracts, sciatica and penury, but he has high hopes that his problems will all be resolved when he goes to New York City, where...
...such an electric climate, anti-war feelings didn't prosper. The Harvard Pacifist Association counted 14 pious members, all Quakers and Jehovah's Witnesses. Even they did their best to contribute, as conscience and beliefs would allow--the CRIMSON noted with grudging approval, "They have offered themselves as subjects for study to psychologists who have been invited to attend their meetings...