Word: jerichos
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...crusty old prospector partner led him to one of the richest copper strikes in Arizona. With the Blue Chip mine making him richer every day, Packer began talking to his wife about New York dressmakers and Tiffany jewels. What he could not foresee, as he watched the town of Jericho mushroom, was the kind of overpowering disaster that can turn even blue chips into crushing liabilities...
Merchants & Poets. Rahab the Harlot, whose "house was upon the town wall." concealed the spies sent by Joshua into Jericho; in return, Rahab was protected by the Israelites when the walls came tumbling down. The screen of "merchants" who preceded the Mongol hordes across Asia in the 13th century were the occupational ancestors of the Nazi "businessmen" and "tourists" who infested Europe and Latin America in the 1930s. In China, it is said, military intelligence became such a respected art that rival commanders sometimes parleyed, each with his spies in attendance, and worked out how a pending battle would come...
With a cool $32 million to give away last year, the Ford Foundation has sprinkled its largesse into many a remote cranny.* Last week it was training its sights on a tract of blooming farmland near Jericho, where the crops are wheat, oranges, and above all, hope. It is a Boystown -the first in the Middle East-for Arab children left homeless and orphaned by the Arab-Israeli...
...more frequently heard is the procession of words deserving to be named the Jericho Sermon. Some preachers . . . seem to have implicit faith that if they march around the outside of a subject seven times, making a loud noise, the walls will fall down. They rarely...
...there are other times in the program when White is a blues singer--a pretty good one, but just another blues singer. He is clever, warmly humorous, a crowd pleaser. He sings One Meatball and the audience laughs; he sings Jericho and the audience claps in rhythm and joins in the chorus. He is an entertainer with...