Word: jewish
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many Zionists who heard him were near tears. Arab delegates smiled discreetly. The reaction abroad (see INTERNATIONAL) and elsewhere was more violent. U.S. Jewish leaders spoke angrily of a sellout. The New York Herald Tribune spoke for others: "There are few Americans who will be able to regard the action of their government without a sinking of the heart...
...Jews seemed dead set on fighting. The Jewish Agency announced that it would proceed with the establishment of a Jewish government in Palestine. Said the Agency Executive Chairman David Ben-Gurion: "It is we who will decide the fate of Palestine. . . . The Jewish state exists because we defend...
...night last week three inches of snow drifted down on the mosques, churches and synagogues of Jerusalem. In the sparkling morning, Jewish and Arab boys had a snowball fight across Princess Mary Avenue. Soon there would be different battles in that street...
President Truman called urgently yesterday for an Arab-Jewish truce in Palestine and United Nations trusteeship there, but both Arab and Jewish leaders seemed cool to his proposals...
...centers upon Peter (his surname never appears) and his two fellow-careerist apartment-mates n Manhattan. Ted lost his arm overseas; shorn of idealism and faith, overwhelmed with wealth that is the one ingredient he needs least for happiness, he ultimately ends his life. Lew Cole has changed his Jewish name for the sake of armament in the competitive world of radio. Peter himself fights the false enticements of The Newsmagazine where he sells his soul for handsome office trappings and scampering office boys. Through the lives of these three and the circle around them runs a pattern of restlessness...