Word: deserter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When, in a New York by-election, the Democrats were trounced by the Progressive Party's Leo Isacson in Boss Ed Flynn's own Bronx, panic swept the Democratic ranks. Politicos began to desert the Truman ship. Anybody but Truman was the cry. Through it all, the man from Missouri kept his own counsel, and laid his plans. When he was asked to withdraw, he retorted grimly: "I was not brought up to run from a fight...
...hours later the Israeli army announced it was taking "steps to prevent the Egyptians from continuing aggressive action." The evening of the same day Jewish forces attacked Gaza from the sea; the following day they attacked it from the air, bombed Egyptian outposts in the southern Negeb desert...
...from the seething of the contradictions: 1) the proletariat doesn't like the old system any more; 2) the upper classes can't keep going under the old way - it just won't work; 3) the wishy-washy elements (the lower middle class and the farmers) desert the dominant class and go over to the proletariat; 4) internationally, the dominant class is isolated to a considerable degree, so that it can't get help from other capitalistic governments, while the proletariat can get help from fellow proletariats in other capitalistic countries and from Soviet Russia...
...Lebanon, Arab villagers were doing a brisk business with Jewish troops in nylons and wrist watches smuggled from Beirut. Lebanese village muktars (village chiefs) were giving banquets for Israeli staff officers, who in turn supplied them with sugar and other foods scarce in Lebanon. At Beersheba in the Negeb desert, 19 sheiks, with a solemn signing with rings, had petitioned Israel for protection. An Arab leader in a Jaffa jail complained to his lawyer that he had been skipped in Israel's recent census...
...part would result from our participation. The advantages would be great. By putting our already-incurred commitments down on paper, we would do much to bolster the center-party governments on the continent by proving to the people of France and the Benelux nations that we will not desert them in case of a Russian invasion. There is still a very real segment of European public opinion that believes the United States will pull out and leave Russia to fill the power vacuum...