Word: sodom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Hunter to Sodom. On the first of the book's 565 pages, Hoover is still President, Marjorie is 17, and the Morgenstern family has just made the great social leap from the Bronx Park East to Manhattan's Central Park West. Marjorie is a blue-eyed, brown-haired beauty who can scarcely see past her next prom date. But eagle-eyed Mama Morgenstern is already shopping in the marriage mart...
...once infamous city of Sodom,* which has been pretty much out of the news since Lot's Wife turned into a pillar of salt and the whole sinful citizenry got its comeuppance (Genesis 19), was back in the limelight. Tel Aviv's Chamber Theater Company arrived in Sodom to perform for the local miners and settlers-among them, Israel's former Premier David Ben Gurion, now a sheep farmer. On a stage set up near the Dead Sea, 1,200 ft. below sea level, the actors put on a new play, Casablan, dealing with the social...
...original Sodom, at the south end of the Dead Sea, was destroyed by fire and earthquake about 1900 B.C. Some authorities call attention to a mound of salt, called "Lot's Wife," still standing near the modern Sodom...
...Nashville, came an urgent invitation from the Ministerial Alliance of Phenix City, Ala. Would Preacher Graham bring his crusade to Phenix City for a "sin-killing, old-time revival, reaching into every soul?" This, to many, was just what the doctor ordered, since Phenix City, once known as Sodom, was in the midst of a political upheaval following the murder of a candidate for attorney general and the revelation of a pack of other high crimes (TIME, June 28). But before Graham could reply, the answer came from a different quarter. Announced Major General Walter J. Hanna who with...
...state. In reply, he declared: ". . . As they excommunicated me for the sacrilege of heresy, so I excommunicate them in the name of the sacred truth of God. Christ will judge whose excommunication will stand." He also said: "Why do we not . . . assault . . . the whole swarm of the Roman Sodom . . . and wash our hands in their blood?" Then for a year he went into hiding in the Wartburg, there to begin his translation of the Bible, a work as fundamental to the German language as the King James version is to English...