Word: tides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was much to be done: prayers, lustrations, holy meals-and the sacred scrolls must be taken to the nearby caves and hidden from the impious enemy. Then the Romans came, and in that summer A.D. 68 the Community of the New Covenant at Qumran sank beneath the surging tide of history that laid waste Jerusalem and began the great dispersion of the Jews. For nearly 19 centuries nothing remained of the covenanters but a dim tradition and a ruin in the desert like an enormous graveyard. Christianity spread from Palestine, Rome fell, Mohammed's conquering armies passed within...
...nothing in Dr. Oppenheimer's public record which should bar him from any honor or any appointment which Harvard can confer. I am therefore more concerned lest there be such a reaction to this protest that whatever Dr. Oppenheimer will say in his lectures will be drowned in a tide of sympathy.... Sanford A. Lakoff
Dutch & Lucky. On the New Deal tide Jimmy rode high. His pockets crammed with money, he fronted for an army commanded by a young man named Arthur Flegenheimer, better known to his fellow racketeers and murderers as Dutch Schultz. While Schultz and his mob prospered in bootleg whisky and the numbers racket, Hines provided the necessary protection. Uncooperative policemen were shifted to faraway beats, district attorneys obligingly quashed indictments, amiable Hines magistrates freed the small fry. Into Hines's personal treasury came -in addition to the customary kickbacks from city employees and officials-vast wads of money from Schultz...
...Hard Way. "No need to be squeamish," urged London's conservative Time & Tide. "He is a gangster dictator and must in the end be dealt with as such." Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, heading for the Gaza frontier, threatened a renewal of war. In a Chicago speech, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington declared: "There will be no real peace in the Middle East until Nasser is out of power...
With gasoline rationing dragging on and the cost of living rising, the tide of public opinion is flowing toward the Laborites for the first time since they were swept out of power...