Word: levying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resolving the border disputes that have grown in recent weeks to dangerous levels. For the Israelis, however, trust must equally reside in Israel's highly mechanized and vigorous army, without which the 19-year-old nation might long since have been pushed into the sea. Last week Premier Levi Eshkol came under heavy pressure at home to unleash his mailed fist in retaliation for what is interpreted in Jerusalem as nothing less than Syrian brinkmanship...
...been averaging three raids a month inside Israel, blowing up a house here, a bridge or water pipeline there. Last month, in their most daring exploit yet, they even reached the outskirts of Jerusalem, where they bombed an apartment building only a mile from the home of Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol. Sometimes they crossed over from Lebanon, sometimes from Syria, where they were actually based. But more often, they sneaked in through Jordan, where King Hussein seemed powerless to stop them. Last week, Israel finally struck back with the white-hot fury of the desert sun itself, launching its biggest...
...slowly forward, as a crowd of some 50,000 gave a rousing birthday cheer to Israel's ex-Premier David Ben-Gurion. "I am only 20," B-G said wistfully. "Four times 20." Though most Israelis were feeling sentimental about their nation's grand old man, Premier Levi Eshkol was not. Having feuded with Ben-Gurion almost since the day he succeeded him in 1963, Eshkol pointedly boycotted the celebration at Jerusalem's Convention Center. B-G wasted no tears over that, however. "Eshkol should be fired," he snapped...
...akin to Virginia Woolf, about a disturbed suburban couple (Hume Cronyn and his wife, Jessica Tandy). Playwright Hugh Wheeler (Big Fish, Little Fish) has a stage version of the Shirley Jackson novel, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a disturbing mystery about two sisters in Vermont. Actor Stephen Levi has turned out a first play, Daphne in Cottage D about the widow (Sandy Dennis) of a famous movie star...
...ended forever his relations with Lucy Mercer." In 1920, five months before Roosevelt became the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Vice President, Lucy Mercer was wed to a man 30 years her senior, Winthrop Rutherfurd, a New York society figure whose first wife-a daughter of former Vice President Levi Morton-had died in 1917 after bearing him five children. Lucy bore him one daughter...