Word: levying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group Irgun Zvai Leumi in pre-independence days, appeared to be digging in his heels for both principle and politics. Elected to the first Knesset after independence, he has been Labor's principal opposition ever since, occasionally with effective results. Shortly before the 1967 war, Begin forced Premier Levi Eshkol to give up his added post of Defense Minister to the more aggressive and knowledgeable Moshe Dayan. In the current crisis, Begin sensed that acceptance of the Rogers plan could lead to new elections; his opposition was designed in part to publicize Gahal's position to prospective voters...
...lady's matter-of-fact self-assessment: "I am a bitch." Many in Israel agree. The late Levi Eshkol called her a shrew. Yitzhak Raphael, a National Religious Party leader, labeled her a liar. She has been threatened with murder and having acid thrown in her eyes. She is sometimes tailed by thugs, and she gets more hate mail than an Arab sympathizer. Says former Education Minister Zalman Aranne: "She leaves scorched people and scorched earth behind...
...salty in person as she is in print, Sylvie was visited by Moshe Dayan last year while she was in a hospital recovering from an ulcer. Dayan told her that he planned to visit the dying Levi Eshkol. Was there anything she wanted him to pass on to the Premier? "Yes," said Sylvie, "tell him to get well so you won't become Premier...
Edward H. Levi, President of the University of Chicago
...black county commissioners, Levi Morrow, a 66-year-old farmer, remembers that a few years ago the white-run highway department tarred the road to within 30 ft. of his front door and then stopped. The foreman explained: "We ain't paving in front of no nigger's door." Says Oscar Williams, a black Peace Corps veteran who now works as administrative assistant to the county commissioners: "We have justice in mind. Black should be beautiful for everyone, not just for black people. But if an agency that has a history of discrimination comes before...