Word: aliya
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...terms, the early European immigrants who have long provided the nation's elite, often to the frustration of the impatient native-born sabras. His early years in the Ukraine were spent amid both prosperity and a continual fear of pogroms. At 19, he landed at Jaffa in the aliya, or immigrant wave, of 1914, and hiked across the sandhills to a farming village. As the need arose, he became in turn a farmer, soldier, irrigation expert and labor organizer. In the 1930s, he was sent to Germany to help Jews emigrate to Palestine...
...ladies to Washington, should social invitations include either, neither, or both wives? To their relief, the hostesses read at week's end that Ali had partially solved their problem. He will, according to word from Pakistan, bring to the U.S. only Begum No. 2, Canadian-born Lebanese Aliya Saadi, his "prosperity" bride. But the capital's party-givers were still slightly upset: they had grown fond of popular Begum No. 1, Hamida, when Aliya was a lowly, belowstairs secretary...
Married. Mohammed AH. 46. Prime Minister of Pakistan: and Aliya Saadi, 28. Ali's former social secretary; he for the second time, she for the first; in Beirut, Lebanon. Still married to Hamida, mother of his two sons, Ali took his second wife under Moslem law. which permits a man to have four wives at a time if they are treated "with justice and equity...