Word: judah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stocking-footed priests of the Coptic Christian Church began their matins to the booming rhythms of a throbbing bass drum and the jangle of silver rattles. In the streets thousands of adoring subjects set up a howling cry of greeting for Emperor Haile Selassie, the Conquering Lion of Judah, Elect of God and 225th in a long line of Ethiopian emperors who traced their ancestry back to the Queen of Sheba herself. A moment later, the tiny, dignified, bearded monarch, resplendent in blue uniform and green sash all enveloped in a redlined cloak, stepped out of a sleek green...
...years ago Harvard Medical Student Judah Folkman, working under famed Heart Surgeon Robert Gross, got the idea that holes between the ventricles of the human heart might be closed with plastic (polyethylene) patches. Like all such ideas, it was tried first on dogs. Last week in Boston Children's Medical Center, a mongrel named Airplane, with a strip of collie in his bar sinister, was dubbed "Dog Research Hero of the Year," invested with a new collar and silver medallion by Cardiologist Paul Dudley White for having helped to prove the operation feasible. Airplane now leads a pampered existence...
...Hanukkah; time again for Jewish boys and girls to hear the story of Judah Maccabee, warrior son of the aged priest Mattathias, who dared to lead his tiny band of fighting men against the might of Assyria. It was circa...
...Stores report their "worst Hanukkah ever," and most have not even bothered to decorate their windows; large parties are few, and the hotels will have plenty of room for last-minute arrivals at their Hanukkah balls. In place of the merrymaking, Jerusalem is celebrating the kind of Hanukkah that Judah Maccabee would find to his liking...
...Right to Say No, he habitually takes the con. People pro-any-thing get short shrift from Con-Man Koestler. Yet Americans should find themselves stimulated by this tough controversialist. Some examples of Koestler's talent for taking the unpopular side of an argument: ¶ In Judah at the Crossroads, he tries to close his accounts with Zionism with the advice that Jews should either go to Israel or renounce their religion and stop praying, "Next year in Jerusalem."* "The mission of the Wandering Jew is completed . . . There must be an end to every calvary." For his "apostasy...