Word: nyack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THEODORE KAGHAN Nyack...
Bertha put in four years at the Missionary Training Institute in Nyack, N.Y., cramming all the medical-aid courses she could find. Three times she was set to leave for Africa when the trip was canceled at the last moment. Finally, she wound up in Tennessee's Cumberland Mountains, nursing the sick, teaching the Bible, and making clothes for the dirt-poor cabin dwellers...
...mistaken belief that until he spoke up in 1939 "no voice of any importance anywhere" had protested against Hitler's butchery of Jews. He is also proud of having backed Palestine's Irgun terrorists so vigorously that he found "British spies among the early irises" of his Nyack garden and became (evidently forgetting about Benjamin Disraeli) »'the first Jew to be denounced in the House of Commons for 500 years." But to Hecht none of this counts for much compared with the misfortune of living in the contemporary world. For Ben Hecht clearly blames Ben Hecht...
HENRY Bouw Nyack...