Word: mountings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Kitty Hawk to Cherokee, from missile plant to church pulpit, reshaping a landscape once principally adorned by loblolly pine, flue-cured tobacco and two-room farm shacks. Near Laurinburg, Presbyterians broke ground for a new college, a few weeks behind the Methodist groundbreaking for a college at Rocky Mount and three years behind the brand-new $19 million campus of Baptist-affiliated Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem. All were additions to Dixie's best college complex, fed by Dixie's best public school system. In the center of the Piedmont, engineers mapped sites for nuclear, chemical...
...Samaritans retaliated by rejecting the Jews. They proclaimed themselves the true remnant of Israel. The Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem was not the true temple; the correct site, they said, was on Mount Gerizim, where Abraham took Isaac for sacrifice. There the Samaritans set up their own temple and held that there had been no prophet since Moses and no law save that in the Pentateuch...
...Haste. This week, as they have for the past six years, the Israeli Samaritans will journey to join their brethren for Passover on Mount Gerizim. Bearing gifts of clothes, toys and fruit, the 130 men, women and children will cross the border at Jerusalem's Mandelbaum Gate, climb aboard buses for the 70-minute ride to the sacred mountain on which they must remain during the whole seven days of Passover, in accordance with Jordanian security regulations...
...cent, and never could reach that figure, the H.A.A. has an obligation to keep the Faculty's subsidy as low as possible. "Operating expense," as the subsidy is euphemistically called, reached $666,621.55 last year. Unless careful precautions are taken, this deficit, with rising costs and declining income, will mount much higher...
...site of Mount Sinai at the confluence of contending religions was responsible for the fact that the monastery contains nearly all the icons which survive from before the 8th century. In 726, the Emperor Leo the Isaurian ordered all icons within the Byzantine realm destroyed to discourage idolatry. Only those at Mount Sinai escaped, since the monastery had fallen under Omayyad rule. The Moslems left the monastery in peace; in return, the monks allowed the Moslems to build a mosque within the monastery...