Word: primed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prime Time, Kendrick...
...Israel, voters choose parties rather than individual candidates for the 120 seats in the Knesset, or Parliament. The seats are then apportioned among the 16 contending parties according to percentages of the total vote. The results were about what had been expected. Prime Minister Golda Meir's Labor Party collected the largest number of seats. With a slow count still incomplete at week's end, the projection was 56 or possibly 57 seats. With five votes from two Arab parties aligned with Labor, she will have a majority of one or two-just below the three-vote margin...
...Meir dominated the brief campaign. Her party unfurled huge color posters of the Prime Minister. Reported TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin from Jerusalem: "They had the imperative about them of the command, 'Chicken soup is good for you-so eat.' " At 71, Mrs. Meir outcampaigned younger members of her party and charmed voters with her plain talk. "Even when there is peace," she told audiences, "I will always hold one thing against Nasser. He made killers out of our boys...
...expected to have little difficulty protecting its majority of 38 in the 125-seat Parliament. Last week, with the final votes still being counted, it was apparent that the Liberals held power-but only just. In the closest tally in years, the opposition Labor Party seemed likely to trim Prime Minister John Gorton's comfortable margin to at best a half-dozen seats...
...proceeds to fill that lack by showing him to what intelligent uses power can be put. Zeus also symbolically sires Apollo, the first creative artist, because "power has always sought the assistance of the arts" to answer the perennial question of how men should live. But power's prime function is to impose order on chaos...