Word: deir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exploits in Savagery. Elsewhere, savage raids turned into brutal massacres. Four miles from Kastel, about 100 Jews (two-thirds Irgun, one-third Stern Gang) swept into the village of Deir Yesin at dawn, blew up its huts with demolition charges. More than 200 Arabs, half of them women & children, died in the slaughter. The rest of the village's 700 dwellers surrendered or fled to caves in the nearby hills. For the first time, the Irgun and Stern terrorists were fighting against Arabs as a tactical force. While the Zionist General Council was accepting the Irgun's offer...
...flies bounce off deir skulls to win dem everlasting fame...
...last man in the world they'd like to be left alone with on a desert island. That honor moved him to say: "Tings like dat is all advertising. Good for yuh. As for dem college graduates, I know some. Mostly bus boys tryin' to woik deir way up to waiters...
...Henry Maitland Wilson poked a three-pronged drive into Syria. One prong from Palestine aimed up the coast at Beirut, Syria's No. i port; another from Amman in Trans-Jordan through the mountainous Druse district towards Damascus; the third from Iraq up the Euphrates Valley toward Deir-ez-Zor, one of the most important French garrisons in the country. Royal Navy units gathered off the coast and opened fire, R.A.F. bombers punched hard at airfields...
Once at a meeting, a number of faculty members charged the University with not giving certain of its teachers secure tenure of their jobs. President Hutchins claimed that this practice kept them on their toes. "Vot you mean." Ajax burst out, "is dot it keeps dem on deir knees...