Word: jericho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year old financier has served as a trustee of Jericho Public School, the Greenvale School, and the Foxcrott School. His efforts with hospitals include serving as president of the boards of Nassau Hospital in Mineola, N.Y., and of the Presbyterian Hospital...
...lunched with the mayor of Nazareth, drove all around the Sea of Galilee, went to Cana, walked the hills around Capernaum, studied the excavations at Jericho, worshiped at Bethlehem and swam in the Dead Sea. Rosalynn and I also walked along the escarpments of the Golan Heights, traveled slowly down the entire length of the Jordan River, rode the torpedo boats at Haifa and viewed a parade at a military training center at Bethel...
Palestinians in exile speak of it as of a lost love, recalling with an aching sense of longing the serene beauty of the Samarian hills, the sweet-smelling orange groves of Jericho, the mellow light of the Old City of Jerusalem. There is an air of great antiquity about the place, as if history had paused there and left its indelible imprint. Gnarled olive trees cling to the arid slopes, and oxen and donkeys plow the terraced hillsides, much as they did when Jesus walked the paths of Palestine. In the evenings, women still gather at the village well...
...Joshua fought the battle of Jericho, and the walls came tumbling down...
...onslaught as anyone could imagine. Twice last week the Israelis staged attacks on the besieged western areas of Beirut that in sheer destructive power, though not in casualties, wreaked devastation that stirred memories of the punishment inflicted on European cities during World War II and recalled the fate of Jericho, the enemy city that the ancient Israelites had laid waste. One observer, studying the wreckage, cited the sardonic words of a soldier quoted by the Roman historian Tacitus: "They made a desert and called it peace...