Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...including the historian, are a part of history. Europe's Iron Age, closing over Toynbee while he was studying at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, taught him that history is also the present. It was the eve of the Balkan wars. In dingy Greek cafes, Toynbee heard something he had never heard at Balliol-discussion of the foreign policy of Sir Edward Grey...
Says Toynbee (near the end of the one-volume edition): "This chapter itself was written on the eve of the outbreak of the General War of 1939-45 for readers who had already lived through the General War of 1914-18, and it was recast for republication on the morrow of the ending of the second of these two world wars within one lifetime by the invention and employment of a bomb in which a newly contrived release of atomic energy has been directed by man to the destruction of human life and works on an unprecedented scale...
Early in the afternoon of Sabbath eve two British minesweepers spotted their quarry entering Palestine's territorial waters near Haifa. She was a battered, 750-ton freighter jampacked with 1,350 Jewish refugees from Europe bent on entering the Holy Land. She had had a long, hard voyage-30 days from Goteborg, Sweden, which she had cleared as a Greek ship (the Ulua), bound for South America. Now she flew the blue-and-white Zionist flag and her bridge carried a freshly painted name: Chaim Arlosoroff (in honor of a murdered Palestine labor leader...
...passed Barclay's Bank Building, shattered by a bomb soon after the ship's interception (two Jews were killed). Then they ran into tough, maroon-bereted British paratroopers, who barred their way. Jews and soldiers traded insults. Then the Jews went away into the dusk of Sabbath eve. Four hours after the first encounter aboard the Arlosoroff the fight went out of the immigrants on the ship...
...office, Obregon discovered he had got all this service free-Genaro was not on the palace payroll. He flipped Genaro a gold coin, promised: "When I come back I'll see that you get a home of your own." But he never came back. On the eve of his return to office he was assassinated...