Word: meas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the forbidding stone walls of Jerusalem's Mea Shearim quarter, hundreds of bearded, ultra-Orthodox scholars study the Torah from morning to night, and wear the fur-trimmed black hats, ankle-length gaberdines and dangling ear-locks of the medieval ghettos. On the Sabbath, the more violent among them have stoned and burned moving vehicles and shattered the windows of homes where radios were playing. The rules of the Torah and the Rabbinate strictly circumscribe the lives of their womenfolk, who must not sit with men, must cover themselves to ankle and wrist. After a rudimentary schooling, Mea...
...imagine myself fighting shoulder to shoulder with contingents whose military leaders today condemn German generals." Into the "visitors' book" at the German frontier post, Falkenhausen-who claims that he had tried to help the Belgians (TIME, March 19)-wrote: "Ingrata Belgia, non possidebis ossa mea [Ungrateful Belgium, you shall not possess my bones...
...Dissatisfactions. Trumpeted Republican National Chairman Guy Gabrielson: "The attempt ... to insinuate that Republican victory mea°ns a revival of isolationism is an unworthy fraud and deceit." Alexander Wiley announced that the results meant only a "closer supervision" of foreign aid funds. "There need not be fear that Congress will slash foreign aid with a meat ax," he said...