Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, U.N. Palestine Mediator Count Bernadotte laid the refugees' plight before the Security Council, insisting that Israel take back the Arabs "despite the enormous difficulties." Israeli officials disagreed. As a struggling new nation on a war footing, they said, Israel could not afford large-scale relief projects. "Furthermore," said one, "the government won't organize a large enemy fifth column, which the return of some of these Arabs would obviously create . . . The ones who are pressing for their return are Arab states who . . . want to be rid of the economic and social problem they have created...
Eighteen years ago this week, when she sat down at the keyboard of Hearst's Herald, newsmen laughed. They knew Eleanor Patterson Gizycka Schlesinger, then 46, as a willful society woman turned big-game huntress and rancher, who had married a Polish count and regretted it, then a lawyer who died four years later. Even Hearst, who first hired her, underestimated her newspapering instinct, almost as keen as that of her brother, Joe Patterson, or Cousin Bertie McCormick...
...other Arabs were as amenable to reason, the U.N.'s mediator, Count Folke Bernadotte, would have a good chance to establish a basis for peace between now and Sept. 21, when the U.N. Assembly meets in Paris...
...flashy new car, but insisted "I'll be all right." For he was the Golden Boy, who drew more cash customers into Madison Square Garden than any fighter living. He had twice won & lost the lightweight crown. No fighter had ever knocked him down for the full count...
...eyes of the world, Tolstoy was no more than a Count who was regarded as a promising young author. But when he began to visit the Bers in their Moscow home, the whole household felt that "he did not resemble an ordinary guest." Tolstoy roamed all over the house, talked to adults, children and servants with such impartial eagerness and sympathy that "wherever he was, life became interesting and significant." He never knew how much they all loved him because, as he often told Tatyana, he "was convinced that he was repulsively ugly...