Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radio Baghdad called Hussein the "hireling king" and the "grandson of Uncle Sam," warned that flight was the only escape from "the noose the people are preparing for you." Instead of decamping, King Hussein last week closed his border against Syrian arms and agents, toured the old city of Jerusalem, Al Birah and Ramallah, where he chatted with army officers and inspected troops in their sandbag dugouts facing the Israeli positions along the frontier. In his determination to stay in power, Hussein jeered at Israel, partly to pacify the Palestinian Arabs, who make up two-thirds...
...with care," Simons growls in the manner of a jumpy but undeniably vigorous bullfrog, establishing a style that never leaves him. Not a word of the part inclines me to believe anything but that Henry is chiefly a moraliser, that saving his vision of Jerusalem his is unimaginative, that his health is bad, and that his principal outward characteristic is almost uncanny self-restraint. Simons displays none of these qualities; their essential counterpoise to those of Hal is smothered...
...taken literally as records of events in Jesus' life. Many form critics agree that the detail-laden narratives of Jesus' Passion are derived from eyewitness accounts. But the story of the Magi, and Matthew's account (27: 51-53) of the disturbances that took place in Jerusalem after Jesus' death, appear to be folk tales that were devised to impress the faithful with the magnitude of underlying events. Form criticism suggests that many sayings of Jesus were shaped by the Evangelists, although they reflect Christ's thoughts. The Sermon on the Mount, for example...
...such modern Catholic Bibles as the English translations prepared by the late Monsignor Ronald Knox and the U.S.'s still-incomplete Confraternity editions, both of which were designed to replace the classic but archaic Douay version. A religious bestseller (more than 1.000,000 copies) is the French Jerusalem Bible, translated by the staff of Ecole Biblique, a respected center for Biblical research run by the Dominican order in the Jordanian section of Jerusalem...
...with David Ben-Gurion, but returned in 1918 as a private in the invading British army's Jewish legion to continue his agitation for a Jewish state, and in 1952 accepted the largely ceremonial office of President, following Chaim Weizmann's death; of cancer; in Jerusalem...