Word: davids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine years since David Ben-Gurion founded the New Jerusalem by the force of a fanatical vision and the shrewdness of a gun-toting prophet, there have been times when much of the world has wondered just how big the tiny republic thinks it is. For one peaceful spell, Israel's unsleeping sentinel retired, full of years and honors, to Sde Boker, a pioneer desert settlement, to plough fields, search the writings of the philosophers for "universal truth" and ponder the mission of man-and of Israel. Then, white of mane but wearing the familiar khaki battle dress...
...commission's work spread to such influential British newspapers as the Daily Telegraph and the Manchester Guardian. In a House of Commons press conference a fortnight ago, two honorably discharged British soldiers, formerly wardens in a Nicosia detention camp, told of brutal beatings of prisoners. Said ex-Serviceman David Toon: "We felt it our duty to speak. We feel that people in this country, and government officials here, have no knowledge of the harsh treatment meted...
...David's daughter for St. David's day," cried a musical Welsh voice in the bar at Brown's Hotel as its owner raised his pint high. Across the street, their collars turned up against the icy wind, the voters of Carmarthen constituency in Wales were queueing up to cast their votes in Britain's third parliamentary by-election since Tory Harold Macmillan took over as Prime Minister. Under normal circumstances the results would have been easily predictable, for Carmarthen is a Liberal Party stronghold and one of the candidates was pert, jaunty, 54-year...
...years old respectively, are just like most girls their age except that they have a daddy who is a pianist-songwriter (The Money Tree) and full of bright ideas. One day Daddy-Mark Mclntyre-took them over to a recording studio and played his arrangement of the old Lee David-Billy Rose heart-thumper, Tonight You Belong to Me, while the girls cut a record as a birthday gift for Grandmother. When a musical friend of the family heard the record, "she flipped," and when Daddy submitted the disk to Liberty Records, President Si Waronker flipped...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 10:30 a.m., CBS). Ulysses S. Grant's Personal Memoirs discussed by Author Bruce (This Hallowed Ground) Catton, Columbia Professor David Donald...