Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...narrow area between the Jewish city of Tel Aviv and the Arab city of Jaffa, panic flickered among scores of jittery Jewish families. Plumbing signs marked on walls by sewer workers had been mistaken for Arab threats, and had raised visions of another St. Bartholomew's Eve. This week, Jews staged a general strike; Arabs planned to follow suit...
...president of the Rochester (N.Y.) Society of Free Thinkers. (Last spring he got religious training abolished in three upstate New York towns.) Mr. Cromwell would only "affirm" to tell the truth, instead of swearing by God. Then he testified to his beliefs that the story of Adam and Eve is fictitious, the Flood a scientific impossibility and the Resurrection a physical impossibility. He declared: "I am proud to say that I am [an atheist...
...eve of China's greatest triumph -the formal surrender of the Japanese at Nanking (see INTERNATIONAL)-indefatigable Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek looked ahead. To his nation of 450,000,000 he proclaimed...
...interview with TIME Correspondent Annalee Jacoby, the Generalissimo voiced his own, and his nation's high hopes. "I am very optimistic," he said. On the eve of important talks with the Chinese Communists, he felt that a peaceful unity could be achieved. He was firm in his ruling on the Communist demand that the convocation of a National Assembly to launch constitutional government be postponed. "The National Assembly,"' said he, "will be convened as scheduled...
...Russians promoted the Union on the eve of the Big Three parley? London's Daily Herald offered a clue. The Big Three, it reported, will discuss a common administrative policy for all Germany and an overall German government under Allied control. In any such discussion, Generalissimo Stalin would be way ahead of the game. His part of Germany was the only one with ready-made political parties and a program on which the new Reich might be built...