Word: hegira
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kate and her rachitic younger brother are transported thousands of miles from Poland to the U.S. at the end of World War I. The girl discovers the American air to be full of strange odors and foreign languages, especially English. She is part of a typical "Jewish immigrant hegira": first the densely packed tenements of the Lower East Side, later the wide open spaces of the Bronx, where her household is a turnstile of transient relatives. Simon's father plugs along in the shoe-design business and resents the energy and inquisitiveness of his wife and oldest daughter. Kate learns...
...managers and professionals. Nearly half of Asian Indians fit into those high-status job categories, almost twice the rate for whites; a survey conducted by the Chicago Reporter, a monthly newsletter about minorities, found that 39% of all Asians in that city were managers or professionals. The Asian hegira has also spawned a new class of small entrepreneurs, many of whom work schedules that make the 40-hour week look like child's play. Asian-owned fish markets, green groceries and restaurants have breathed fresh life into fading inner-city districts...
Whatever the outcome, Salazar believes he has learned something during his personal hegira. He has found a kind of equanimity. Says he: "I don't feel like I have to prove myself the way I did before...
Kissinger's 17-day hegira was a long-planned private tour. He was riding not in an Air Force plane but a corporate jet, in company with his wife Nancy, CBS Chairman William Paley and Brooke Astor, the New York socialite who gave a postelection party for Ronald Reagan. Yet both Kissinger's itinerary and his comments to the press left the impression that he was trying to help fashion a Middle East strategy for the incoming Reagan Administration. After his talks with Sadat, Kissinger announced that the Egyptian leader would be received as an "honored friend...