Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British troops searched for bodies in the wreck of Jerusalem's King David Hotel where 80 had died in a Zionist terrorist explosion. British statesmen in London groped for something solid in the rubble of their Palestine policy. World sympathy for Zionism, though not yet a ruin, was beginning to crumble. The Arabs, who seemed to profit most by last week's events in the Holy Land, sat tight...
While the overwhelming majority of Jewish spokesmen deplored the outrage, an extremist Zionist band known as the Irgun Zvai Leumi took credit for it. Inferentially, it deprecated the loss of life by claiming to have telephoned a warning to the King David's switchboard...
...associates in London. The wires implicated the Agency, which has always deplored violence, in terrorists acts. Agency leaders hotly denied the accusations, but it was incontestable that Haganah, the Jewish defense organization, had recently broken precedent by publicly assuming responsibility for the bombing of Palestine bridges. With the King David Hotel outrage, the policy of terrorism had gone too far for moderate Zionists...
Born. To Virginia ("Ginny") Simms, 28, radio and screen singer; and Hyatt Robert Dehn, 35, building contractor: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: David Martin Dehn. Weight...
...Michelangelo Buonarroti . . . wore stockings of dogskin for months together, and when he took them off the skin of the leg sometimes came with them." Once, Pier Soderini (a Florentine politician) said he thought the nose of the David too short, so Michelangelo "took his chisel and a little loose marble dust in his hand and climbed the scaffolding. As he tapped lightly on the chisel, he let the marble dust drift down. 'I like it better now,' said Soderini. 'You have given it life...