Word: halo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...donkey (left side of picture), not famous for brains, with the sanctimonious halo above his head, his squint eyes looking down his nose, the self-satisfied smirk, really cinches it with that right fore hoof "kicking...
...halo. That was supposed to be a small but ominous cloud...
David Ben-Gurion, who carries beneath the wild halo of his white hair great visions but little patience for political compromise, has ruled the country with difficulty. To satisfy the Jewish Orthodox bloc in his cabinet he accepted the virtual prohibition of civil marriages, the import of pork, the use of public buses on the Sabbath. But when the Orthodox faction demanded that education in the immigrant camps be turned over to the rabbis, Socialist "B.G." exploded, sought new elections. He hoped to win an absolute majority for his Mapai party (ideological twin of the British Labor party) which held...
Bridges had simply provided the Communists with another martyr's halo, they said. "A Bridges singled out and jailed by arbitrary judicial action while he is prosecuting with diligence his good-faith appeal poses to our minds a more serious menace to the nation and our Constitution than does a Bridges [free] on bail...
...cling to our most sacred beliefs when we are faced by adversity and even death in doing so? It is not hard to see that the authors of this play, William Berney and Howard Richardson, have stacked the deck on favor of a great big "yes" with a halo over it. But they have done the trick in a good-natured ingenuous manner, and most people will be inclined to overlook the prestidigitation...