Word: seeds
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Jewish domination in Palestine diminished after the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem in A.D. 70, and in the Diaspora most Jews were ultimately scattered. The Bible notes that Palestine had been promised to the "seed of Abraham." This properly applies to Arabs as well as Jews, since Abraham's first son, Ishmael, was born of the Egyptian concubine Hagar and is thus the father of the Arabs. Though Arabs did not conquer Palestine until A.D. 634, they have remained ever since, first as rulers and later as the subjects of an Ottoman hegemony that ended after...
After Iona's husband is executed for treason, having shielded his wife's involvement in the rebellion, Agathon goes to seed. It is then that he starts compulsively laughing at the universe and having visions of the future...
...impossible to enforce. It is bad enough that the effort fails. Worse, it helps finance organized crime, a vast consumer industry that supplies millions of Americans with outlawed goods and services. On gambling alone, the Mob now nets as much as $10 billion a yearseed money for narcotics distribution, loan-sharking and bribes for corrupt lawmen who look the other...
...parole, Sonny found life was almost worse than inside: "The board would tell me, 'Stay away from nightclubs.' Now how was I gonna play music if I couldn't go near no nightclubs? One time they got me a job with a seed company in Lompoc. They had me standin' there with a brush this long, pollinatin' flowers. I was a human bee. If a brother had ever seen me doin' that, he'd cut me dead...
...Resist biologically; be healthy . . . erotic . . . conspire with seed . . . breed...