Word: joshua
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recorded in the Book of Deuteronomy, the idolaters occupying the area were to be annihilated completely: men, women, children, "as the Lord your God commanded you." Such enemies were herem-proscribed abominations whose pagan practices threatened contagion. History is unclear how often this "commandment" was carried out, but Joshua seems to have applied it with vigor against Canaan...
...Also: Joshua M. Farber of Mather House and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Arthur B. Feinsod of Eliot House and Roslyn, N.Y.; Harry M. Flechtner of Winthrop House and Fostoria, Ohio; David I. Folkerts-Landau of Winthrop House and London, England; Bobby Fong of Adams House and Oakland, Calif.; Thomas L. Force of South House and Vandalia, III.; Richard D. Friedman of Winthrop House and Rockville Centre, N.Y. and, William F. Ganong III of Dunster House and Albany, Calif...
Elizabeth and Joshua Steiner, aged 10 and 7 respectively, and sub-counsels to the University, saw no action yesterday, but kept tally from the sidelines. "Daddy," they said after the game, "even with new math it comes...
Native Israelis take almost as much delight as the tourists do in the contrasts and paradoxes of their extraordinary homeland. Lod was a fortified city in the days of Joshua; its motto is taken from the prophet Jeremiah: "Thy children shall come again to their own border." At the site of this ancient citadel, giant jetliners today disgorge joyous refugees from the Soviet Union, the source of the latest aliyah. Horse-drawn carts rattle through the streets of nearby Ramla, while Phantom and Skyhawk jets scream overhead. Beneath the Qumran caves, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, picnickers romp...
...Party, hired Reggae Singer-Composer Clancy Eccles as his campaign consultant. First Eccles converted the reggae hit Better Must Come ("Let the power fall, beat down Babylon!") into the party anthem. Next he supplied disc jockeys with rhythmic campaign slogans. Then he assembled a morality play, casting Manley as Joshua-rewriting the last line of his own reggae song Rod of Correction and substituting the name of Prime Minister Hugh Shearer in "King Pharaoh's army was drownded...