Word: rams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning of Islam's greatest feast day, Aid el Kebir. On that day, by sacrificing a ram. the faithful learn whether the year to come is to be peaceful and prosperous-or disastrous...
Ordinarily, the Sultan rides outside the palace walls to cut the ram's throat.* The new Sultan prudently preferred the safety of a mosque inside the palace grounds. Carefully, he thrust his knife into the animal's throat, then stood back while the carcass was placed on a jeep and rushed off to the palace. The tradition is that if the sacrificial sheep arrives at the palace alive, the land will be blessed. A few minutes later came word from the palace: "The animal arrived still breathing...
Summing up his 25 years as Housemaster, Ferry says, "Harvard is a gold mine littered with nuggets, some good and some bad. You can get some good ones if you look hard enough. But nobody is going to ram them down your throat...
Shoulder to Shoulder. Harvester was careful not to ram nondiscrimination down Southern throats without warning. Scouts were sent to each city well in advance to place newspaper ads explaining company policy, to talk to civic groups and city officials. When the time came to hire, interviewers were on hand to explain exactly what the company meant. "Every white applicant," says a Harvester official, "was very clearly told that we did not discriminate and that he might find himself working beside a Negro. If he didn't like it, then it was no place for him to come to work...
...came for Captain Knoke not in air combat, as he had hoped ("If I ram one of the Yanks, I shall be able to take him with me"), but in an automobile crash in Czechoslovakia. Partisan bombs wrecked his staff car, crippled his legs for life. He dragged out the war in convalescence, nursing the tattered logbook that recorded 2,000 flights, 400 combat missions, 52 confirmed kills...