Word: prongs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is a grave question as to how these churches would react if Jews were to begin to convert Christians to Judaism." To explore these problems, Gordis proposes a conference of all Jewish national organizations, lay and rabbinic. Before such a Semitic summit meeting, Gordis would lay a "two-pronged program." Prong No. I : a pilot mission to Japan, which "would not encounter the difficulties that might arise in a country in which Christianity is dominant." Prong No. 2: information centers on Judaism throughout...
...tall statuette of the Mayan Rain God Chaac (see color), one of two discovered by a Carnegie Institution expedition in the ruined Yucatan city of Mayapan, and now on view at Mexico City's National Museum. Probably sculpted from clay in the 14th century, the prong-nosed Chaac is seen here in full regalia, with all his accouterments worked out in the full complexity of the Mayan style...
When a reporter sought comment on the Chotiner investigation (see below), the President laid down a two-prong code of ethics for the Government people under him. Every citizen must receive courteous treatment, he said, but at the same time, if anyone comes claiming privileges on the basis of a White House connection, "he is to be thrown out instantly...
Tornadoes whirled through the deep South last week. Half a dozen separate twisters struck Vicksburg, Rolling Fork, Tulles. Dry Prong, Paradis. Ouachita City and dozens of hamlets and rural areas in Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas and Georgia, leaving an estimated 41 dead, 263 injured...
Demolished and damaged homes and barns marked the northeasterly are of the storm. Beginning in the Leander area, it brushed the outskirts of Alexandria, hit Paradise, Dry Prong and Tulles...