Word: manna
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...share each other's campuses. They set up a council, opened headquarters in Atlanta, went into operation in 1949. By last week, the Southern Regional Education Board had become the biggest boon that Southern education has ever known - "the greatest bargain," says Florida's Fuller Warren, "since manna fell on the children of Israel...
...lost his Roman eagles when surrounded in the Teutoburg Forest of Germany, this distinguished general raised his American eagles to heaven. When ringed in Berlin by the might of Russia, and in an epic destined to live long in American annals, known as the Berlin Airlift, he dropped manna from heaven to the cause of freedom...
...itself, there has never been any relief of finishing. Its first edition appeared in 1768 in Edinburgh: three volumes put out by a "society of gentlemen." To these gentlemen, California was "a large country of the West Indies," a toothache could be cured by "laxatives of manna and cassia dissolved in asses' milk," and tobacco could dry up the brain to "a little black lump." Later, as knowledge grew and changed, the Encyclopaedia Britannica had to grow and change with...
...Stood Still. When the comet passed by, it left destruction and famine. Fortunately, however, says Velikovsky, its nutritious tail condensed into edible manna and nourished the Children of Israel...
When they awoke next morning, many of the Yemenites, who had never seen snow before, thought that it was manna. With bare, half-frozen feet, dusky children from the Red Sea kingdom romped about in the snow, cried out gaily: "It's warm!" They soon found otherwise; for Israel, and for her poverty-ridden neighbors, the "manna" was a grimly cold blessing...