Word: remnants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab-Israel war transformed this Biblical land of Edom and Moab, nearly tripling its population (now 1,500,000), adding to its territory a remnant of Arab Palestine west of the Jordan River, and swelling the capital of Amman from a scraggly town of 35,000 into a lusty, horn-tooting city of 200,000. A sophisticated and embittered lot, the West Bankers captured most of the country's commerce, filled half the 40 seats in Parliament, and poured out vituperation toward the West -at Israel, and at the U.S., which in their eyes gave their birthright...
Train the Remnant. Last week, as it began its 88th year, Clarke was already embarked on a centennial fund-raising campaign for $3,000,000. At the head of the campaign was another distinguished former board president and teacher, who met her future husband while she was on the faculty. In spite of the high place to which marriage took her, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge has remained devoted to Clarke. "I never hear a deaf child," she once wrote, "that my heart does not go out to it. I breathe a prayer that fortune may favor it by bringing...
...school's method is based on the belief that the totally deaf person is almost nonexistent; even those who seem totally deaf to others usually have some slight remnant of hearing. With the help of powerful hearing aids, that remnant can be trained to distinguish speech rhythms. Sign language, Clarke insists, produces only a limited vocabulary. It calls attention to the handicap, keeps the deaf child perpetually a stranger in the world of the hearing...
...oversensitiveness (surely immature) when a guide in Niagara's Cave of the Winds called: "Let the old fellow go first." And he notes that Freud unfairly blamed rich U.S. food for intestinal trouble that actually antedated his visit by several years, and was probably a psychosomatic remnant of his earlier neurosis. "I often said to myself," Freud once wrote, "that whoever is not master of his Konrad should not set out on travels." There is no doubt that Freud suffered while in the U.S. from both chronic appendicitis and prostatic discomfort. In connection with his prostatitis, which necessitated frequent...
...free ingathering of Jews from everywhere is a proposition basic to the heart and soul of Israel. But last week through Jerusalem's streets marched hundreds of dark-skinned Jews from North Africa, solemnly brandishing banners that read, "Oh, Lord, Save Thy People, Remnant of Israel." Among the onlookers, one expressed what many felt: "It is bad enough that Jews should be begging their own institutions for action. It's even worse that we don't all feel like joining...