Word: saturday
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buried the bodies of the drowned. The 14 survivors were given jobs by a Hindu oil merchant, who put them to work pressing seeds for oil (still a traditional occupation of some Bene Israel villagers). Because they refused to work on the Sabbath, the Hindus called them Shanwar Telis-Saturday's Oilmen...
...Genesis. Without any written records of their faith, which were presumably lost in the shipwreck, Saturday's Oilmen handed down what they could remember of their rituals and practices from generation to generation, losing more and more as the centuries rolled on. Then, tradition relates that some time in the 12th century a Jew named David Rahabi, believed to be from Egypt, discovered them. Noting that they abstained from work on the Sabbath, circumcised their male children when they were eight days old, stayed indoors on Yom Kippur, and refused to eat fish without fins and scales, he decided...
...spirited but sloppy Crimson hockey team dropped its opener Saturday night at McHugh Forum before 4,200 as Boston College rolled up two goals in the first period, then kept its lead to win, 4 to 2. Though playing without two first line starters, B.C. still managed to pepper Crimson goalie Willy Henderson with 49 shots, almost twice the number made by the varsity...
...Crimson squash team swept past a dogged Army nine at West Point Saturday to win, 9 to 0. Although in their usual top condition physically, the Cadets simply lacked the experience necessary to handle the powerful Harvard team...
...varsity swimming team won the first of hopefully many routine meets when it defeated Springfield College 57 to 38 Saturday night...