Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many. Israel cannot absorb large numbers of newcomers without grave risk to its burdened economy. No longer are there abandoned Arab villages to be filled, no longer is there fertile land, once worked by the Arabs, to be brought to plow; there remain only the harsh lands of the desert and the stony hills of Galilee. Last week Premier Moshe Sharett warned against "ill-considered alarmism" over the Jews in North Africa, and the government made it plain that only in case of actual persecution of Jews would Israel's doors be thrown wide open...
Saved from the Fire. Along with other refuse of war, the piano was supposed to be burned on a giant scrap heap in the desert. Carmi did not suspect that there might be anything special about it, but he could not bear the thought of any piano's being burned, no matter how old and battered. He got permission from his superior officer to keep it out of the flames. Later, partially restored but still encased in plaster, the piano was given to a troupe of entertainers touring the British armies in the Mediterranean...
...brought him the piano, Carmi set to work. Using the original, wafer-thin cypress wood sounding board as a guide, he painstakingly restored the piano, installed a new-action and strings. The job took three years. In 1953, he arrived in the U.S. to show off his transformed desert...
...pleasant garden on Mt. Desert Island off the coast of Maine, a rosy old man sat tootling on a recorder. "I'm not really musical," he explained to a guest, between puffs, and proceeded to prove it with a squeaky rendition of Finlandia. Suddenly he blew a sour note. "Oh, thunder!" exclaimed Mark Anthony DeWolfe Howe. "That makes me so angry...
...second river was the "once deified and permanently sewage-laden Mother Nile." He saw the defeat of the Afrika Korps and recorded in harrowing detail "this confusing mixture of rascality and gallantry, of bloody murder and of common sense, of intolerable grimness and of surprising joviality" that was the desert war. When the R.A.F. bombed a port in Tunisia, Johnston went along. And so "the BBC made its first triumphal recording of a member of a bomber crew in actual flight over a target . . . Clear as a bell it came over the intercom: 'Here come the obscenity obscenities...