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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than the nationalistic glory it yearns for, the Arab world needs water. The Middle East thirsted when Moses "smote the rock twice: and the water came out," and it thirsts now. By and large, its lands have the necessary soils and minerals, lack only irrigation to bloom with fruit and grain. Last week, in his United Nations speech, President Eisenhower took due note that water could end much Middle Eastern misery, and offered U.S. aid in getting it. In Washington other top officials showed how water could be found. Some ways and means: ¶ Radioactive isotopes. To find underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Water Divining | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Leaguers at Last | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...Milwaukee was shouting the same Scripture last week. For Henry Louis Aaron, a lithe young Negro outfielder, stretched out his hand, smote an eleventh-inning pitch into the center-field bleachers, beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-2, and cured a civic inferiority complex. After predicting it brashly for five summers, Milwaukee citizens finally saw their boast come true. The Braves had won a National League pennant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Leaguers at Last | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...excerpt also describes in greater detail than Genesis the terrible plagues that were visited on Pharaoh for taking Sarah. "That night the Most High God sent a pestilential wind to afflict him and all his household, a wind that was evil. And it smote him and all his house and he could not come near her nor did he know her." After two years of this, according to the scroll, not even Sarah's marvelous beauty could sustain the Pharaoh. He restored her to Abraham and sent them both out of Egypt "exceedingly rich in cattle and also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Beauty of Sarah | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

When Smoot Smote Smut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1955 | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

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