Word: jaffa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Israel recently an American ex-Army captain tried to marry a Jewess. A rabbi refused to officiate (because the captain was not a Jew); ditto a district commissioner (because he was not a British subject). He was turned down by an Anglican church in Jaffa (because the bride was not a Christian) and by a Greek Orthodox priest (who considered both outside his flock). A ship captain said he could perform the ceremony by taking them on a special trip beyond the three-mile limit. But when he quoted his price, the couple decided it would be cheaper...
...Lawrence Jaffa 3Dv, told the Cabot Hall audience of his efforts on a three man delegation that was studying the possibility of affiliation with the International Union of Students. Jaffa's committee eventually recommended suspension of negotiations with the IUS. He charged that the IUS did nothing to insure free student expression during last February's Czechoslovakian election...
...murdered, the government of Israel gave the impression that it would seriously try to break up organized terrorism. It passed a drastic anti-terrorist decree, forced the illegal Irgun into the regular Israeli army and clapped 187 members of the Stern gang, which boasted of killing Bernadotte, into the Jaffa jail. Last week it was quite apparent that the Israeli government's bark was no match for the Stern gang's bite...
...Sternist prisoners at Jaffa made their own rules, ripped bars from the windows and tore down the steel doors connecting their cells. Guards, who feared that the prisoners might still have hidden arms, thoughtfully left their own guns outside before entering the cell block...
...Houghteling, an ally of Jaffa's, decided to oppose Gilbert, who had not committed herself on the controversy which had built up around Jaffa and had remained unaware of factional competition...