Word: deeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never learn?" Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett rushed a fervent apology to Moscow. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion cut short a vacation to lay the matter before the Knesset. "An abomination was committed by hooligans last night " he stormed. "If self-styled Jewish patriotism was the motive for their foul deed and if their intention was to fight for the honor of Israel, then let me say that it is they themselves who have profaned ... the honor of Israel.' As he spoke police were rounding up 27 suspects most of them members of something called the Anti-Communist League...
...autopsy had revealed that Virginia Morton had died in the night of a heart attack and that her body bore no signs of strangulation. It was the opinion of the examiner that the defendant had never brought himself to commit the deed he thought he remembered. Said the judge: "You are free...
...person, no home, no community can be beyond the reach of this call. We are summoned to act in wisdom and in conscience, to work with industry, to teach with persuasion, to preach with conviction, to weigh our every deed with care and with compassion. For this truth must be clear before us: whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. "More than an escape from death, it is a way of life...
...closing of the schools was perfectly legal. To all intents and purposes, the citizens of Pleasant Grove had done the deed themselves-but they had done it unintentionally. What they had really wanted to do was to place their schools under the control of their big and wealthy neighbor, Dallas, which had already taken over everything but their schools...
...Mercy Bent. But there were satisfactions. Boy Scouts not only pledge themselves to perform a good deed daily but actually live up to their oath. If an old lady gets sick, they will appear at her door week after week as volunteer shoppers and errand boys ("The staying power of boys on mercy bent sometimes surprises me"). If a child is ill, they will drop in to play checkers or to deliver homemade jigsaw puzzles...