Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dulles in 1954 and of the prematurely publicized Radford Plan of last year-both widely condemned in Britain on first hearing. Washington had plenty of notice about its ally's latest plans. Britain's Harold Macmillan told Dulles last December at a NATO meeting that the United Kingdom would have to trim its defense budget and worldwide military commitments. Defense Minister Duncan Sandys gave further details during his successful missile-shopping trip to Washington in February; Macmillan gave a full explanation to President Eisenhower during their Bermuda conference...
...south, in the precarious artificial kingdom of Jordan, anti-Communist King Hussein, 21, failed in a roundabout maneuver to shuffle Red-leaners out of Premier Suleiman Nabulsi's cabinet. Nabulsi, 48, is the Palestinian ex-soap manufacturer who took office after pro-Nasser parties swept last October's parliamentary elections. Nabulsi refused the king's demand for his resignation and instead proclaimed that the Cabinet had voted to establish diplomatic relations with "our loyal friend, the Soviet Union." In a speech at his refugee-crammed home town of Nablus, he defended what he called his "positive neutralism...
Love of Law. Twice a day they celebrated a solemn communion meal, with blessing of bread and wine. This, says Scholar Cross, was "a liturgical anticipation of the Messianic banquet" in the coming kingdom-a concept that was a common theme in the Judaism of the time. Another regular practice of the Essenes was baptism. On entering the community, individuals received a baptism on repentance of sins (unlike the later Christian practice, however, the Essene baptism was renewed each year and supplemented by continued daily ritual washings or lustrations...
...sins," he proclaimed the end of the world, and though he attacked the Scribes and Pharisees as "generation of vipers" and worse, he seems not to have mentioned the Essenes at all. But on the other hand, John broke sharply with the Essene tradition in preaching the coming kingdom to the whole people of Israel, instead of withdrawing from the world like the Essenes to prepare his private salvation...
...American Guild of Variety Artists slapped the name of Saudi Arabia's non-union King Saud (TIME, Jan. 28) on its "unfair list."* Saud's misdeed consisted of his commanding an Egyptian acrobatic troupe, now playing in his desert kingdom, to stay for some more performances, thus preventing the alley-oop specialists from keeping an imminent engagement...