Word: blue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recently, after the sun had set over Madrid, a "group of Spanish Jews met in a small, neat, new synagogue. On the walls hung the white and blue banner of Israel; the traditional nine candles stood against a background of gold-embroidered drapery. When the candles were lighted, old men in black skull caps joyfully started to chant the ancient Hanukkah hymn. The younger ones barely remembered the words. Once more, the Jews of Spain, who used to be the world's richest and proudest, had an open, permanent place of worship. A bent old man sighed...
...Panayiota Theofanous, a pretty soft-voiced Nicosia housemaid, caught the fancy of John Gow, a Scots R.A.F. pilot. Airman Gow was killed six months before Panayiota gave birth to a boy in the Nicosia Government Hospital. The rosy baby weighed 7 Ibs. 9 oz., and had eyes as blue as any Scotsman...
After three days, Mother Shatis appeared satisfied with the fair, blue-eyed child she had been given as her own. She took Blue Eyes back with her to the mud-brick village where she lived with her husband. Panayiota stayed behind with the dark boy who, she was convinced, was not hers...
Luck for the Shepherd. When Shepherd Charal Shatis looked into the strange blue eyes of the son his wife had brought home, he felt some misgivings. But Shatis began to prosper, and he came to believe that Blue Eyes brought him luck...
Time and again Panayiota traveled to the Shatis home, begging for the return of Blue Eyes in exchange for the dark boy. But Mrs. Shatis insisted Blue Eyes was hers-she wanted no part of the dark little tyke who looked like all the other children on Cyprus...