Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Parson Hauff didn't like the sound of this, or so he said, and he asked the voices for further guidance. Take canned food, said the voices, and go. Where? Jerry was told that the best place for fleeing was remote, snake-infested Soledad Canyon, 65 miles from Los Angeles, on the edge of the Southern California desert. He bought 520 acres of it, and founded Eden City-the first, he said, of his "cities of refuge." Two dozen of his elderly parishioners sold their property, handed Jerry the money and headed for safety...
There was little opposition at first. Master Sergeant Arthur Tucker's Patton hit a mine about eight miles north of Seoul while reconnoitering a bypass around a blown bridge. Its left tread peeled off like a snake's discarded skin; the men inside crawled out to shiver in the sunlight. Then an armored scout car, with a British bridge-building detachment, hit another mine, bounced up & turned over. Two groggy but otherwise uninjured Britons climbed out. A South Korean jeep coming over to inspect the double mishap struck a third mine, was blown into a tangle of steel...
Americans seem to have a consuming interest in snakes. They must be told repeatedly that there is no such thing as 1) a hoop snake, which is supposed to put its tail in its mouth and roll downhill when frightened, or 2) a milk snake, which is supposed to sneak into barns and milk cows, or 3) a cannibal snake, which supposedly eats its young. Another bump of curiosity is excited by the Old Testament. Questioners want to know if Adam was divorced (from Lilith, according to Jewish folklore); whom Cain married (possibly his sister Awan); who was Noah...
...drive into town to see a boxing match that night, Langrish happily accepts. Everything about Archer is mysterious: his talk about an imminent "crisis" and the need for dedicated soldiers, his warning that the "other lot," the enemy, is getting ready to attack, the tattooed sword and snake...
...wiggled in and wiggled out Until it left the man in doubt Whether the snake that crossed the track Was going north or coming back...