Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Palestine war without the arms which Soviet-satellite Czechoslovakia sold them. Moscow and Washington tumbled over each other to be the first to recognize the new state the day it proclaimed itself a nation (the U.S. won), and the telegram of congratulations that Israel's Premier Ben-Gurion later sent Stalin on his 70th birthday remains one of the least attractive passages in Israel's diplomacy...
Open House. Though an Israeli official dismissed Khrushchev's hint as "too hypothetical to consider," his government is officially dedicated to the proposition that it welcomes all Jews, and Israel is sentimentally committed in particular to Russia's Jews, since Ben-Gurion, Moshe Sharett and many other Israeli leaders were born in Russia. When Ben-Gurion said last August: "The survival and peace of the state of Israel require the addition of at least 2,000,000 Jews in the near future," he was thinking of Russia's 3,000,000 Jews-because nowhere else...
...said). Of the 26 shows that Graff will run off on consecutive Sundays at 2:30 E.D.T., seven will be entirely new, e.g., visits with Jacques Lipchitz, Igor Stravinsky, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, Vannevar Bush, Walter Gropius. Next week Graff himself steps in to interview David Ben-Gurion in the library of his Tel Aviv home. His basic idea: to provide "a uniform panorama of human leadership in the first half of the century...
When Gertrude Stein went on a mystery-reading kick, the American Library in Paris fed her doses of 18 whodunits a week; Poet Stephen Vincent Benét researched John Brown's Body within its walls, and Molotov once checked out an almanac. Since its start in 1920, the American Library-a nonprofit, privately operated institution now located on the Champs-Elysées-has been an outpost of U.S. culture that has soothed homesick tourists, stimulated bored expatriates, and provided facts-good or bad-about the U.S. to anyone who dropped...
...eventually clamped down on the Kram brothers (the Post Office persuaded Benjamin and Henry-Max had quit the firm-to sign an affidavit promising to go out of business). Meanwhile, back in Pittsburgh, young Murray Kram, Max's son and Uncle Ben's assiduous pupil, was keeping the family's tin-plated platinum cup clanking. A bat-eared young man with the mournful features of a card player who has aces wired, Murray could not ask alms as a disabled vet, since he had not been in service. Instead, with the customary request for $1, he made...