Word: forefront
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...course, been called off, and 500 invitations have been canceled. Zaki charges that his apartment has been entered by Farouk's agents and that all letters and pictures of Narriman have been stolen; he has been followed by secret police. Nobody tried to put him in the forefront of a battle, but he says that he was offered the next worst thing: the ambassadorship to Russia. When he refused, he was told to get back to his job at Lake Success as fast as he could...