Word: sodom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Theobold, pastor of the Friendly Bible Apostolic Church at Port Hueneme, plans to resettle his congregation of 90 men, women and children in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Theobold, who claims to have received mystical confirmation of Abernathy's vision, believes that the earthquakes "will leave Southern California like Sodom and Gomorrah before the end of 1970." Theobold says that his flock will leave before Oct. 12, "the deadline given me by God for departure...
...higher priority for national action and no higher claim on the nation's conscience," for "to continue on our present course will...ultimately involve the destruction of basic democratic values." As one pundit grimly pointed out, the last time urban change was left to the Lord was at Sodom and Gomorrah. Gary T. Marx Assistant Professor of Sociology
...first light of dawn, troop-car rying Israeli helicopters lifted off their pads near Jericho and Sodom and raced eastward deep into neighboring Jordan. As soon as they had landed their in fantrymen in blocking positions, the main Israeli invasion force began to roll. North of the Dead Sea, Centurion tanks laden with helmeted paratroopers and halftrack personnel carriers trun dling infantrymen rumbled across the Allenby and Damiya bridges onto Jordan's East Bank. A second task force punched across the border south of the Dead Sea. Israeli artillery laid down a barrage that walked just ahead...
Nehemiah's job took him to Sodom and the potash works at the southern tip of the Dead Sea. The potash works are still flourishing, but workers no longer live near Sodom. At the lowest point on earth, the heat is so intense that life is literally unbearable, even in the age of air-conditioning. So laborers live at the new city of Arad in the Northern Negev and commute to work...
Brimstone has been a hot commodity ever since it was used to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. Today the ocher-colored mineral is in greater demand than ever. This year's free-world production of sulfur, as the stuff is commonly known, will amount to 15.6 million tons, a critical 300,000 tons short of needs. In the U.S., which accounts for more than 50% of the output, once vast stocks have shrunk to a 35-year low, leaving the nation with a bare 15-week supply...