Word: hasn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gurion was not just to suppress terrorism, but to convince Israelis that the terrorists' promises of victory through violence were deceptive. Last week he demanded and got a vote of confidence (24-7) from the Council of State. Said he: "The incident may be closed, but the danger hasn't ended ... It would be a mistake to depend upon the army alone [to suppress terror]. The entire people of Israel are called upon to overcome the danger." Terrorists had flourished during the British mandate. Now, said Ben-Gurion, Israel must unite to eradicate them...
...which was secretly submitted to Congress at the start of the current session is even stronger: it permits the Executive to declare a state of emergency and to draft every individual and every enterprise into service and make them subject to military law. In a nation that hasn't fought a war for 70 years, this law can only be interpreted as a device for maintaining civil order...
...they hit 160 feet. The recognized world's record is 193 feet, the American record 189 feet, 7 1/2 inches, and the National collegiate record 183 feet, 10 inches. Felton, a six foot, 22-year-old Senior from Philadelphia, has thrown better than 180 feet twice this spring and hasn't fallen below...
...hasn't collected news clipplugs, though, since last year, when his Adams House maid accidentally threw out his entire set of notices. Medals, he keeps, carefully folded in strips of gray flannel. They fill up three or four small boxes. No meet is too small for him in the off season. Last summer, after placing second in the Nationals, he went down to Manchester, Connecticut and won the hammer throw at Tinty's Flying Ranch track and field meet...
Mother Hubbard is a gentle creature-all she does is to furnish son Ben with a blackmailing stranglehold on his tyrannical father. Son Oscar is just a born ninny; he tries hard to be a stinker but he hasn't the talent. But the other three would make a quarrelsome day in a bear pit look insipid. Now & then, as they shift grips on each other and set-to all over again, their unmitigated hellishness comes very near absurdity. But they are never undramatic...