Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aviv, Israelis were chuckling at a story about Finance Minister Eliezer Kaplan, who was trying to make the ends of his budget meet. It seems that Premier David Ben-Gurion met an old friend on the street one day and asked what he was doing. "Nothing," answered the friend, "nothing at all." "Why, that's preposterous!" said the Premier. "A man as able as you-to be idle. You should be in the government. Name a job and it's yours." "Well," said the friend, "I could use a cabinet post." "Oh, I'm afraid that would...
...talked for a moment in a low voice and returned to the table. In the candlelight the lines on his youthful face-he is 44 - had sagged. He stared at his rice bowl, then explained quietly that he had just had word of a radio message from his friend General Huang. "The trap is closing," said Li. "He must have help soon. We must reach him in two days...
...would not complain, my friend," said the manager. "You are lucky to get out on anything...
Lithe, svelte Fawzia, considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, was every bit as Westernized as her friend Farida. She never learned to like her new home. Mohamed Reza Pahlevi built her a palace in Teheran and cast off two mistresses to show his devotion, but it did no good. Fawzia bore him one child-a girl-but she refused to speak his language or attend public functions...
With their profits, plus $30,000 from a haberdasher friend, they went to New York-and ran up against potent Klaw & Erlanger, whose syndicate then controlled all New York bookings, plus everything of importance on the road. Though the Shuberts did their best to make friends with the press, some New York papers, dependent on K. & E. ads, panned the brothers and their shows. Libeling a Shubert, scoffed one paper, "would be as cruel as unnecessary...