Word: jerichos
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...Jericho's claim to fame is the way it was captured by Joshua. As the Lord commanded, he and the children of Israel marched around the city once a day for six days. On the seventh, after a blast of trumpets and a mighty shout, the walls came tumbling down.* This happened about 1370 B.C., but it was a comparatively recent episode in the long history of Jericho...
...Road to Jericho. In Coney Island, N.Y., Milkman Charles J. Busch, 50, saw a figure lying near the curb at 5 a.m., stopped, was set upon by the "injured" man and a confederate, beaten and robbed...
...share of Russia's postwar building resources, but the Communists received poor value for their money. Plumbing failed, elevators stuck, doors and windows were full of cracks, balconies fell into the street. Less than two years after Stalin's death, the drab walls of the jerry-built Jericho were crumbling to the inaudible trumpeting of Moscow's overcrowded restless millions...
...With the judgment of the angels and of the saints we excommunicate, cut off, curse and anathematize Baruch de Spinoza . . . in the presence of the Holy Books, by the 613 precepts which are written therein, with the anathema wherewith Joshua cursed Jericho, with the curse which Elisha laid upon the children, and with all the curses which are written in the Law. Cursed be he by day, and cursed be he by night. Cursed be he in sleeping, and cursed be he in waking . . . And we warn you, there shall no man speak to him, no man write...
Since the fallen walls of Jericho, there had hardly been such sound. Motorists stopped. People in town heard about it and jumped in their cars to go out and see what was going on. Finally, the portly figure of Wake County Deputy Sheriff Carl Benton appeared. When he managed to make himself heard, the decibel count fell to normal...