Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lewd Delight. In Paris, peacemakers were astonished by the Wallace outburst. Said one: "Imagine the glee at the Soviet Embassy"-reminding an observer of Poet Ralph Hodgson's poem Eve...
Ever since the discovery of anesthesia, men have been trying to defy God's word to Eve. In 1941, Drs. Robert Hingson and Waldo Edwards of the U.S. Public Health Service started experimenting with continuous caudal analgesia-slow injection of a pain-killing drug into the nerve canal at the base of the spine-during labor. Among their first subjects: Coast-guardsmen's wives at Staten Island's Stapleton Marine Hospital...
Both Left and Right were malodorous in Greece (armed struggle between the factions left 50 dead on election eve). But Britain, and by implication the U.S., were committed, in the nature of the bigger world issues, to support of the Right. Both Governments squirmed with discomfort, for both had failed to make clear to their people the necessity of their unpleasant choice...
...most Jews in Palestine, and beyond in the vast Diaspora, last week looked like the eve of Armageddon, the decisive battle for national life...
...first the opposition to Jewish immigration came only from a few Arab leaders and freebooters. But today, if those leaders gave the word, it would find a readier response among the mass of Arabs. On the eve of World War II, Britain yielded to Arab demands, limited immigration into Palestine to 75,000 more Jews, sharply restricted the sale of land to Jews...