Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Galilee and tried to cut the Arab supply road into Jerusalem. For the first time since the Romans leveled Jerusalem 1,800 years ago, a Jewish army ate Passover matzoth and bitter herbs around campfires in the field. Said Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion: "We stand on the eve of the Jewish State . . . heartened by the victories of our army . . . We have just begun to buckle on the sword...
...Eve. The Communists held their last big rally before the ancient Church of Saint John Lateran. From a ten-ton truck decorated with cardboard doves of peace, Palmiro Togliatti spoke to 100,000 Romans. Said he: Alcide de Gasperi had called him a cloven-hoofed man, and he had a good mind to take off his shoe to show that this was a lie. "But it is better to put hobnails in the shoe and kick De Gasperi...
Last week, on the eve of the crucial Wisconsin primary (see U.S. AFFAIRS), Oda really went to town. On one side of his doorway he pasted a colored drawing of the Statue of Liberty. But in place of the goddess' face and diadem were the features and military cap of Douglas MacArthur. At the figure's feet, in a litter of skulls and bones, lay a trampled black dragon, "Anti-Democracy," with features unmistakably resembling Joseph Stalin's. Oda's latest ode was tacked to the opposite doorway...
...deepest dissatisfaction was found not in Italy (where, on the eve of historic elections, many declare themselves "better off"), but in France. Two pieces of testimony, from opposite poles of French life, show how relative the sense of ill-being can be. Said a not-too-clean salesgirl, in a slum grocery shop in Paris: "I get 9,000 francs [about $30] a month; not enough to live on and too much to die on. . . . I don't know about [political issues]. All I know is that I can't live on my salary and that prices have...
...William Carlos Williams, whose poetry operates without anesthetics (The Wedge, Adam & Eve & the City), got a $1,000 award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters...