Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give and give, and the Russians take and take. Ben Franklin prophesied it succinctly: "Those who give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety...
Does this outpouring mean credit is being used to excess? Bankers think not. Their delinquency record is minuscule; the recession's trough produced few deadbeats. Ben H. Wooten, president of Dallas' First National Bank, told the credit conference: ''Private credit has not been abused. The amount outstanding today is not excessive in relation to our ability to service...
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...
Another attractive candidate being groomed by 72-year-old Ben-Gurion: one-eyed Major General Moshe Dayan, 43, former army chief of staff and hero of Sinai. Ben-Gurion packed him off 13 months ago to Hebrew University to catch up on his education after years of fighting; he has since flunked several subjects, is still hard at work making up for the schooling gaps in a busy soldier's life...
...catalogue for his new exhibition at Manhattan's Downtown Gallery, burly, amiable Ben Shahn, 60, himself dean of protest painters, sharply challenged the current cult of abstract expressionism. Said...