Word: lydda
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...airport at Lydda, a chubby man in dark glasses stepped out of the plane just in from Amsterdam. An Israeli security officer approached him and asked, "Are you the traveler to Cyprus?" "Yes," replied the man, "I am." "Then follow...
Last week Sarah Hecht stepped down from an Israeli plane at Lydda airport into the bearlike embraces of her husky sons. She wore workaday Russian clothes and new shoes and stockings, but the only article she prized among her effects (in fact, the only article of value she was allowed to take out) was the wedding ring which young Merchant Hecht had put on her finger more than 50 years before. In a few hours Mrs. Hecht was walking among the Jordan Valley banana groves, seven grandchildren beside her and three great-grandchildren tugging at her blue cotton skirt...
...will he had written: "I want a modest funeral, without speeches and without flowers..." The nation he had inspired planned it differently. The plane from Vienna bearing Herzl's body was met at the Lydda airport by an honor guard of Israeli soldiers, sailors and air force men holding aloft gleaming, unsheathed sabers. The metal coffin, encased in a wooden box and covered with a prayer shawl, was placed on a black bier and carried to a catafalque on the Mediterranean Promenade of Tel Aviv. At dawn a 300-car cortege followed the coffin to a hill outside Jerusalem...
What Is a Patron? Still sleepy from his afternoon nap, Bevin droned through a long speech, Wearily mispronouncing words (he said "exubriance" for exuberance, "umanimity" for unanimity, "Lydia" for Lydda). When he reached the end without announcing recognition, the Labor benches groaned. The vote on a motion for adjournment was a vote for or against Bevin. Prime Minister Attlee, in a desperate effort to corral wavering Labor votes, made it a vote of confidence for or against the government. Even so, more than 50 Labor M.P.s abstained, and the vote, 283 to 193, was the narrowest majority the Labor government...
...concert nine times to accommodate the crowds. It has played on, undismayed by blackouts, air raids, or the impertinent obbligato of small arms fire. In July another American guest conductor, Izler Solomon, conducted a concert at an army camp outside Tel Aviv while Israeli troops were attacking Arabs at Lydda airport, only an eight-minute jeep ride away. Soldiers returning from battle trickled in between numbers while others left to take over at the front. A few days later the orchestra gave its first concert in Jerusalem in spite of an Arab blockade of the city...