Word: davids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second edition of its 26-part Wisdom series, NBC presented a perceptive glimpse of Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, 70, in his Tel Aviv library. Notable quote from the man who built a new country: "I'm living in a house and I know I built it. I work in a workshop which was constructed by me. I speak a language which I developed. And I know I shape my life according to my desires by my own ability. I feel I am safe. I can defend myself. I am not afraid. This is the greatest...
Most dogged in the doom-crying, North or South, was Pundit David Lawrence, whose five-times-weekly column appears in 270 dailies, 62 of them in the South. By last week Lawrence (also editor of U.S. News & World Report) had written 18 consecutive columns on the evils of enforced integration; his words were played by many Southern editors on Page One. One of Lawrence's obscurer arguments-that Eisenhower's action was empowered by an 1871 law that had "never been used by any Chief Executive for the purpose set forth" by Eisenhower-was promptly rebutted...
About four centuries after David's men beat Saul's at the pool of Gibeon ("And they caught every one his fellow by the head, and thrust his sword in his fellow's side, so they fell down together"), Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar rumbled down from the north to pillage.* When he withdrew, after raids in 598 and 587 B.C., the people of Gibeon must have found their city wrecked and the pool contaminated. Apparently they tumbled in boulders from the town's wreckage, then filled the well's broad stone shaft with earth...
Born. To Harry (Harold George) Belafonte Jr., 30, Harlem-born calypso crooner, and his second wife, Julie Robinson Belafonte, 29, pigtailed, Russian-Jewish dancer (Katherine Dunham troupe): a son, their first child (his third); in Manhattan. Name: David Michael...
...known no more than they [for] Pride has been one of the greatest stoppers of the Advancement of Learning ... He was wont to say that man was but a great mischievous Baboon ... He kept a pretty young wench . . . which I guesse he made use of ... as King David did ... After his Booke of the Circulation of the Blood came-out . . . 'twas beleeved by the vulgar that he was crack-brained ... I was at his Funerall, and helpt to carry him into the Vault...