Word: jew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crackling events reminded U.N. what enforcing solutions might mean. In the Eastern Mediterranean, British destroyers intercepted another shipload of Jewish refugees; one Jew was shot to death and nine were wounded in a scuffle with the boarding party. In Palestine, Haganah stepped up recruiting. Five Zionist leaders, including Jewish Agency President David Ben-Gurion, received messages signed by "the commander in chief of fighting Arab youth for free Palestine." The messages promised: "You will die as soon as possible...
After meeting Samuels in a bar, three soldiers go to his room and one of them, in a drunken rage, kills the 'Jew boy." Thus far, the story is nothing more than another Philo Vance tale, but original elements begin to appear when Robert Young, like any enterprising detective, looks for a motive. After a few false starts the sleuth realizes that Montgomery--Robert Ryan--harbors a mania against the people who stayed home during the war, especially Jews. While the remainder of the plot is not especially original in itself, the story benefits from excellent acting and a couple...
Ever since a strike of Moslem students in 1912, chapel attendance at A.U.B. has been voluntary, but Christian, Moslem and Jew often worship together at the university services. When the spirit moved him (and in 25 years it often did), Bayard Dodge preached sermons to his students, could quote from Koran as well as Scripture. Dodge is proud that A.U.B.'s melting-pot of 50 nationalities and 20 religions has never boiled over...
Crossfire. An effective melodrama about some drunken soldiers and a murdered Jew, with a notable performance by Robert Ryan (TIME...
...thought Donato, had a new age come to the world with Christ's coming? Was there more love and understanding? Was there less worldliness? Christ could not be the Messiah, Donato told himself. The Messiah must be an ideal not yet attained. Donato decided to become a Jew...