Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cemeteries. Ben-Gurion is the kind of man who provokes strong reactions. "He is a man nobody can talk to, reason with or deal with," says Jordan's Education Minister Auni Abdel Hadi. Admirers call him another Churchill; others, like one State Department official, consider him "the most dangerous man in the Middle East." "Ben-Gurion is not a full man," says Sheik Farouki, leader of Arab refugees in Jericho. "He is a poet . . . not a man of facts. He wanted to build a new nation by raiding cemeteries and making a people from the bones of history." Says...
...unite these elements Ben-Gurion called for "tremendous educational effort, superhuman patience and boundless love." Within a day's walk of Tel Aviv's neon lights are villages where babies are still painted to ward off the evil eye. Said one social worker: "The 20th century is living next to the 10th." In a village near Beersheba, a group of five young Israelis who answered Ben-Gurion's call to live with the newcomers found a group of Jews from Cochin China-dark-skinned, resigned, pious and poor-who seemed to share nothing with the new state...
...intention of relaxing. He will go right on telephoning his players at home on off evenings to make sure they are keeping training; he will go right on fining them if they drop into a saloon for as much as a short beer or a long telephone call. Anyone caught swapping small talk with the opposition during pre-game practice will get an automatic $100 fine. "We're not out to make friends," says Philip Henry Watson. "We're out to win games...
...number, and tried something harder: picking the top hits of the half century. The list, chosen by Columnist Jim Walsh on the basis of originality, catchiness or sales figures: In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree, School Days, Casey Jones, Down by the Old Mill Stream, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Alexander's Ragtime Band, I Want a Girl, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, St. Louis Blues, Over There and God Bless America...
...suicide notes. To his wife he said: "The only thing I have done wrong is to try to build a business. As you know, I have no money to defend myself, and I cannot go on embarrassing you day by day." In another, unaddressed note he said simply: "Call the justice of the peace...