Word: jew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speculate and dream about the atom's future. By the end of World War II, they knew that they had found a treasure of incredible value. They stood like the openmouthed shepherd boys in an ancient tale who stumbled on the entrance of a cave heaped high with jew els. The deeper they looked the more treasure they saw - and the cave went on for ever. What the scientists had found, they told one another with growing excitement, was the modern counterpart of the Philosophers' Stone, which medieval alchemists searched for in vain as the tool to transmute...
...Collected Stories, by Isaac Babel. Moving tales of war, death, courage and ghetto life in Russia by an uncommonly gifted Odessa Jew (TIME, June...
...audiences had dropped from thousands to hundreds, and so had audience contributions. Meanwhile, the Negroes were gaining. Soon, warned Bowles, they would not only be attending church on a desegregated basis, they might even pop up in clubs-"except those country clubs that don't let the Jew in." Therefore, said Bowles, he had decided to quit the N.A.A.W.P. presidency. "I don't feel like helping people who won't try to help themselves," said he. "If the people don't want to turn out now and keep the Negro out of school...
Dreyfus was a brilliant, studious artillery officer who ate, slept and dreamed the army. But in a French officers' club of those days, he had two marks against him: he was stiff, studious and humorless, and he was a Jew. He refused to be cowed by the anti-Semitism of the day, through sheer ability became the first Jewish officer to be appointed to the French general staff. Suddenly, on Oct. 15, 1894, he was ordered to report to the office of the chief of staff. There a Major du Paty de Clam dictated a letter filled with secrets...
Strained Conscience. Treason there was, but the traitor was not Dreyfus. As a Jew, he made an excellent scapegoat. Even after the high command learned that the real traitor was Major Count Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy, decadent scion of the aristocratic Hungarian family, they tried to cover up their mistake and even let Esterhazy keep his rank and assignment. Dreyfus' conviction touched off a wave of anti-Semitism that made it dangerous for anyone to doubt his guilt. But one general-staff officer, Lieut. Colonel Marie-Georges Picquart, found the truth more than his conscience could stand, although he cordially...