Word: return
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Mapai Party would fight to break down social divisions in Israel springing from which people arrived first in the country, Dayan, Peres and Ben-Gurion himself campaigned door to door through Tel Aviv slums. Cape Town-born Abba Eban, who had never lived in Israel before his return from the U.S. last summer, got off to an awkward start by turning up in statesman's coat and tie for a Mapai rally at which Ben-Gurion and everybody else on the platform wore open-necked shirts. As quickly as was diplomatically possible, Eban stripped to his shirtsleeves...
...crime cleanup, but even so, all forms of lawlessness have increased in Singapore this year, and already there have been 55 murders, v. 38 all last year. A month ago, when Triad hoodlums kidnaped Chinese Millionaire Chia Yee Soh and got a fat ransom for his return, Lee and his Cabinet declared all-out war on the gangs...
Freedman regularly handed him the questions and answers, sometimes entire scripts, coached him to pause before some answers, skip parts of questions and return to them, building suspense. At one point, said Van Doren, Producer Dan Enright handed him a $5,000 advance and wished him Merry Christmas...
...hours during 20 locked-up years to testing every door on his ward, trying to get out: when he found them all unlocked, he refused to leave, for fear that he would not be able to get in again. It took him two weeks to get used to the return of freedom...
...Sight . . . What had happened at St. Lawrence was a dramatic and belated revival of what is essentially an ancient idea: the mentally ill are sick, but still people, and they must be treated as people, if they are ever to return to society. For several centuries B.C., some Greek temples were maintained as retreats, where the emotionally disturbed could recover in a calm and restful atmosphere ("milieu therapy" in the jargon of today's psychiatry...