Word: judaic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend's defense with a battery of assistants. Two hundred talesmen were examined before twelve unprejudiced jurymen could be found. "You are here to fix the price of the marriage bed!" roared Associate Defense Attorney John Graham, in a speech so packed with quotations from Othello, Judaic history and Roman law that it lasted two days and later appeared as a book. The jury gave little heed to the prosecution's plea that the case before the court was not adultery but murder. Sickles was acquitted-a national hero...
Thus Commentator Carter afforded at least a partial clue to his increasingly oblique Biblical allusions to the war (calling Hitler "Satan" and the Germans "Assyrians," calling the United Nations the "Anglo-Saxon-Celtic-Judaic peoples" and the "Lost Tribes...