Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning next week, at the drop of the starter's green flag, some 80 crash-helmeted drivers will break into a dash across the concrete runway of an abandoned airfield and pile into their sports cars. The whining racket of racing engines will shatter the Sabbath, and the little (pop. 5,000) town of Sebring, Fla. will come alive to the excitement of the fifth annual Florida International Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance...
...Mantas in vast flocks flap silently through pale and gloom, a nightmare vision as of witches on their way to the evil sabbath...
Even outside this orthodox quarter, the Sabbath lies on the city like a heavy prayer shawl. The strong orthodox contingent in Jerusalem's city government has seen to it that public transportation is banned from the streets; shops and cinemas are closed. For the unobservant Jews, who make up about half Jerusalem's population outside Mea Shearim, the Sab bath became a day of insufferable tedium...
Last fall some enterprising truck drivers began to run Sabbath excursions for young boys and girls, packing them in for a day of swimming, ice cream, fun and games in the country. But the elders of Mea Shearim began turning up after morning prayers at the truckers' parking lots to yell "Shabbes" (Yiddish for Sabbath) at the holiday makers, often adding such insults as "sons of whores, abominations, unclean creatures." Last month Jerusalem saw a wave of violence, with orthodox Jews stopping cars and roughing up their occupants or beating up those seen smoking publicly on the Sabbath...
This week, when Jerusalem's Hanukkah lights had flickered out, few believed that the peace would last. Many Sabbath drivers took the precaution of marking their cars with the Shield of David-the symbol of the Jewish Red Cross that marks doctors' cars. "Even with a Magen David one isn't safe," said one driver, "but at least one is safer." The orthodox leader, Rabbi Blau, however, deplored the violence. "If I had my way," he said, "every Jew who wishes to stand up against what he believes to be a desecration of his faith would demonstrate...