Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single issue had Israelis been so fiercely unanimous as on the kibbutz galuyoth-the ingathering of the exiles. Immediately after independence, the very first act of the new state was to declare immigration wide open. A year ago, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, Israel's George Washington, said flatly: "It was for mass immigration that the state was established, and by virtue of this alone that it will stand...
...Kids," said a man whom the others called Ben, "Let me give you some background on station feeling. It's not fear for a sponsor that troubles us with this one but fear for a license. We are not free to take an editorial stand as a newspaper is. If all of you were anti-McCarthy tonight, we'd have to give him this time next week to hit back. Of course we wouldn't want to do that so we better steer clear of the question. But go on, what else have you got? Talk about anything you like...
...busy week for Ben Miller. On Monday, he punched the bag, skipped rope and shadowboxed through the day in a Times Square gymnasium. Tuesday, he tried out for parts in two movies. That night he climbed into the ring at Newark's Laurel Gardens for a heavyweight fight with a boxer named Willie Huff. Televiewers saw Miller knocked down twice, were spared seeing him knocked out only because of a transmission failure by station WATV...
...outcome did not seem to faze busy Ben Miller. On Wednesday, he had recovered sufficiently to join some 500 other TV actors at Broadway's Maxine Elliott Theater, where he won the audition for a role in this week's CBS show Danger. Thursday, dressed as a cowboy, he posed for a photograph scheduled to appear in Look magazine. Friday, he turned artisan and spent the day soldering together metal frames for hoop skirts that will be worn by the Rockettes of Radio City's Music Hall in their Christmas show...
Fairless' managing technique was to let men talk their grievances out, and if that didn't work, throw them out. Once he called two men in to talk over a quarrel. "When I made a grab for the other guy," one of the disputants recalls, "Ben grabbed me by the neck and threw me out of his office." He was tough in other ways. When pickets under William Z. Foster-then an A.F.L. organizer, now the top U.S. Communist-tried to close down the plant to organize it, Fairless decided that the best way to break...