Word: hora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palestine, as at Flushing Meadow, there was joy among Jews. In the early morning hours, when news of the U.N. vote reached Tel Aviv, cheering crowds danced the traditional hora. In Jerusalem and Haifa, jubilant thousands paraded the streets waving the blue & white Zionist flag. Even British Tommies joined in the fun. Jews began debating the name for their promised state. Most likely choice: New Judea, although ironically the tentative borders (see map) exclude from Jewish control most of ancient Judea...
...book, "nefarious forces" (see above) included the non-Government press. The right-wing Provincias Unidas had already been closed; the Communist Hora was barred from the mails. Passengers on incoming planes were being relieved of their copies of TIME, LIFE and the Saturday Evening Post. Newsstand shipments of TIME were getting "lost" in the Argentine customs. Last week the 52-year-old Socialist bi-weekly Vanguardia, outspokenly anti-Perón, was hit hard; the Buenos Aires municipal government shut down its printing plant. The deadpan reason: its newsprint rolls, unloaded on the sidewalk, obstructed traffic...
...Goldschmidt, 47, is probably the only music critic in the world who insists that he has to carry a revolver. It is purely a matter of self-defense: in the 13 years he has been in Chile, during which time he has written criticism for Santiago's La Hora and Ultima Hora, he has been set upon 14 times by irate readers who objected to his acid words. The only man ever wounded by his Smith & Wesson was Goldschmidt; he shot himself in the hand while cleaning it. Usually it has been a beefy baritone or basso who socked...
...review had barely hit the newsstands when the conductor's wife brushed into La Hora's office and stood before Critic Goldschmidt's desk. Madame Paray, a blonde and ample Alsatian, is about 20 years younger than her husband. She is also a loyal wife. For 15 minutes she rawhided the critic in German. Sighed Goldschmidt as she left: "A real Valkyrie...
...Flanks. A German Army officer in World War I and a fighter versed in military strategy, Alberto Goldschmidt went to South America in 1934 to advise the Bolivian Government in the Chaco war. When war's end stranded him in Santiago, he stayed on to work for La Hora...