Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...David Ben-Gurion . . . the rallying point for the defenders of the young democracy who . . . were responsible for making the first major United Nations decision a reality...
...Fare. In Hoboken, N.J., Dorothy Cantor and David Drysdale succeeded in stealing a watch, failed in their quick getaway by hailing a police car they mistook for a taxi...
...first David had represented the young champion of a race-naked, frowning, indomitable, his murderous, swollen-looking right hand hanging loose at his side. The second version, done about 25 years later, had a softer, more subjective air; the boy's body was twisted like a flame and his head bowed dreamily over one shoulder...
...agreeing to lend the little David as a token of "friendly feelings" toward the U.S., Italy's Fine Arts Commission broke a Mussolini-enacted law against exporting Italian art treasures. Never before has a Michelangelo statue-actually carved by Michelangelo, that is-been exhibited...
...literary criticism, the ambitious new "American Men of Letters" series began a restudy of the country's major writers with Joseph Wood Krutch's well-balanced Henry David Thoreau and Emery Neff's Edwin Arlington Robinson. In Nathaniel Hawthorne: the American Years, Robert Cantwell gave an unorthodox interpretation and filled in the background of Hawthorne's time with a rich mass of detail. Randall Stewart's Hawthorne was a more conventional biography...