Word: levying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JAMES H. LEVI...
...principal street fighters were Hollywood dancers with heavy makeup and bleached hair; but a more genuine group stood by with scornful interest. Wearing checked trousers and colored shirts which, by their own description, gave them a "continental Ivy League" look, far more authentic than the dated T-shirts and Levi's of the dancers, the onlookers could claim to be competent critics. On hand as extras, they were members of the Massadors Division of the Sportsmen, storm troopers from Manhattan's legions of delinquency. And with them-carrying a clip board and wearing striped toreador pants, white-flower...
...indicates that only 66 people, apart from Joseph and his two sons, went to Egypt. If Menashes' son went too, the total was 70. They stayed in Egypt only three generations, despite Exodus 12:40, which puts their stay at 430 years. Ben-Gurion's reasoning: Levi was known to have had three sons who went to Egypt with Joseph-Gershon, Merari and Kohath (Numbers 3:17); Kohath in turn had four sons-Izehar, Hebron, Uzziel and Amram (Numbers 3:19}. Amram had two sons-Aaron and Moses (Exodus 6:20). Thus there were three generations between...
During those three generations, Levi had 25 grandchildren; double that figure for wives, attribute the same average for wives and grandchildren to all the original 70 migrants, and the result is a wieldy 600 men, women and children...
...Junior prom-such as pink and blue balloons, some personally blown up by the wives, which further confused the week-end-on-Venus decor of Hollywood's Moulin Rouge. Costume dress was optional, but most of the folks came in their work clothes-Gary Cooper in Stetson and Levi's, Barbara Rush in a remake of one of Mae West's old negligees...