Word: ben
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting had more lung power than political strength. The delegates, except for those from Mississippi and Alabama, were political outs and has-beens. Most bigwig Southern politicos pointedly stayed away. Even Arkansas' Governor Ben Laney, who had withdrawn as the rebels' favorite son at Philadelphia, remained aloof in his downtown hotel room, contented himself with offering advice...
...both sides of New York's East River (a buffer between Manhattan and Brooklyn), the news of baseball's Black Friday bounced down on the unbelieving. In all baseball history, there had never been such a roar from the bleachers. It drowned out the news that Ben Chapman, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, had been fired the same day. Loyal Giant rooters vowed never to set foot in the Polo Grounds again. In Brooklyn, there were stand-up-&-fight arguments in Flatbush bars. Breezy Leo Durocher, once referred to as a "moral bankrupt" by a baseball club owner...
Unended Danger. The problem for Ben-Gurion was not just to suppress terrorism, but to convince Israelis that the terrorists' promises of victory through violence were deceptive. Last week he demanded and got a vote of confidence (24-7) from the Council of State. Said he: "The incident may be closed, but the danger hasn't ended ... It would be a mistake to depend upon the army alone [to suppress terror]. The entire people of Israel are called upon to overcome the danger." Terrorists had flourished during the British mandate. Now, said Ben-Gurion, Israel must unite...
...looked a little like a baby-faced Lincoln. A Charles of the Ritz cosmetician touched up the wives of the candidates with purple lipstick, and a Chestnut Street barber advertised "television shaves." Singer James Melton's beard photographed as blackest of the week-with quick-footed Commentator Ben Grauer running a whisker behind. Grauer grumbled: "I have a very serious problem. I put on makeup, but people still say 'Why doesn't Grauer shave...
...Asking that peace proposals be submitted to the British, King Abdullah and Jewish Prime Minister Ben-Gurion...