Word: abba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought a flood of newcomers (and new social problems) from Morocco, Tunisia, Iraq, Iran. And they had convinced the young and the newly arrived of their party's forward look by running such attractive, vigorous new candidates as former Army Chief Moshe Dayan, 44, former Ambassador to Washington Abba Eban, 44, former Defense Planner Shimon Peres...
...assure "Oriental" (i.e., non-European) immigrants that the Mapai Party would fight to break down social divisions in Israel springing from which people arrived first in the country, Dayan, Peres and Ben-Gurion himself campaigned door to door through Tel Aviv slums. Cape Town-born Abba Eban, who had never lived in Israel before his return from the U.S. last summer, got off to an awkward start by turning up in statesman's coat and tie for a Mapai rally at which Ben-Gurion and everybody else on the platform wore open-necked shirts. As quickly as was diplomatically...
Confronted with this setback, Ben-Gurion's ministers suddenly began to have second thoughts about raising taxes. And to bolster up his own apathetic party, the Premier called home articulate, erudite Abba Eban, 44, Israel's able, longtime Ambassador to the U.S. and the United Nations, invited him to get into politics. South Africa-born, Cambridge-educated Abba Eban will presumably be groomed to replace ailing Golda Meir (formerly of Milwaukee) as Foreign Minister. First he must get in touch with domestic problems, and learn to leaven his meticulous classical Hebrew with the kind of everyday Hebrew that...
...Abba Eban, Ambassador to the United States from Israel, will discuss the "Significance of the United Arab Republic" tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre...
Secretary of State Dulles, not believing that Israel could be intimidated by the sort of blustering Soviet note that the Turks receive and reject nearly every month, summoned Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban to see what the Israelis were up to. Israel did impose a ban on overflights, only to lift it "temporarily" three days later-for U.S. planes only...