Word: uriah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles Dickens should not have used the name Uriah for Uriah Heep," a sniveling hypocrite." because the biblical Uriah was "one of the bravest and one of the best soldiers...
...script is more notable for words than action, and its pretensions to serious drama are undermined by a plot that never quite overcomes its resemblance to boudoir farce. Uriah the Hittite (Kieron Moore), whom David cheats first of his wife and then of his life, may well be the most gullible cuckold in literature; even played straight, the character seems like a fugitive from a Molière comedy...
Just as interesting are the scores of engineering notions that somehow didn't get generally adopted, e.g., Uriah Smith's idea, back in 1900, of camouflaging cars with imitation horse heads, so as not to frighten real horses coming the other way. Then there was the Carter Twin-Engine car (price: $5,000), a forerunner, in a way, of the twin-engine airplane: if one motor conked out, the driver could still get home on the other...
...roof of the king's house; and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said: "Is not this Bath-Sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" . . . And it came to pass in the morning that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah . . . saying: "Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten...