Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changed his mind in the spring of 1964 after witnessing an enacument of an all too common scene: the police vs. the black community. Some black teenagers had accidentally knocked over a fruit vendor's stand in Harlem. The vendor immediately called two nearby foot patrolmen. A crowd gathered, and the fight was on. "I realized then." says Miller, "that I could not follow standard procedure, that the problems of the black community had to be wrestled with on a much more immediate level than I had had in mind...
...with the British Army in World War II, Eliav later worked with the Jewish underground and earned himself a place high on the British mandatory administration's wanted list. In one notable exploit, he smuggled in 2,000 illegal immigrants from Sweden aboard the Ulua, a onetime United Fruit Co. banana boat aboard which the Richard Nixons once took a cruise. During the 1956 Sinai campaign, he posed as a Foreign Legion officer to smuggle 200 Egyptian Jews out of Port Said aboard fishing smacks...
...carts to the good drivers, that they are well driven; And the valley to the waterers, that it bring forth fruit...
...press conference last week Mayer also said that there was considerable malnutrition among college students. He cited as the cause lack of fresh fruit and excesses of other foods in student diets...
...reason for the U.S. effort is obviously commercial, but equally important is the desire to restore normal relations with the Arabs without going back on the U.S. pledge to guarantee Israel's sovereignty. The effort is beginning to bear some fruit. Mauritania recently renewed diplomatic relations, which were ruptured during the 1967 war, and other states may follow suit. By shifting from the role of benefactor to broker, the U.S. hopes-and the hope is slender-that it may be able to restore peace to an area where warfare has become the daily routine. Last week, for instance, amid...