Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...calm and deliberate manner -sharply different from the laid-back informality of the other Georgians-he presides at the daily 8 a.m. senior staff meetings and mediates when other aides differ. Before going to Washington, he was a highly successful lawyer and a pillar of Atlanta's Jewish community. He began advising Carter in 1966 and served as his campaign treasurer...
...house. If, for reasons of personal conviction, they want to ban liquor from the family quarters, that is no one's business but their own. To turn the rest of the White House into a dry zone, however, is no more proper than would be a Jewish President's banning of pork and shellfish from the White House menu. Daniel F. Goldman Baltimore
...considered a member of the opposition -the loyal opposition, accent the loyal. I'd have it no other way." Carter acknowledged the rapport by throwing Wayne a highball salute. For their second appearance together in 17 years, Mike Nichols and Elaine May did a routine about the first Jewish President. Phoned by his mother and scolded for not having called her, "President" Nichols pleads: "Mother, I was choosing a Cabinet. I didn't have a second." Retorts "Mother" May: "It's always something." Afterward, Miss Lillian insisted: "I'm not that kind of mother...
...also declares that "from his father's house [the king] shall take unto himself a wife . . . and he shall not take upon her another wife, for she alone shall be with him all the days of her life." This is the earliest prohibition of royal polygamy or divorce (Jewish kings were traditionally allowed up to 18 wives...
...operations division during Israel's 1948 war of independence, and he served three years as chief of staff of the new nation's army. Resuming his work as an archaeologist. Yadin led the digs at biblical Megiddo and Hazor and at the Masada fortress where Jewish Zealots held off a Roman siege for three years before committing mass suicide...