Word: sabra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dayan is as much a sabra as an Israeli can be. He was born on May 20, 1915, in the first Jewish kibbutz established in Palestine. When he was seven, his Russian émigré parents moved the family to a moshav, a cooperative farm where, unlike a kibbutz, the members own their land. Moshe liked both farming and books, but he soon found himself learning the arts of war as well. The British sent him to prison in 1939 for belonging to a unit of the Haganah, the Jewish underground...
...working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism. The state has straightened the backs of Jews in every country." In place of many of the old stereotypes of the Jew emerged a bronzed and bare-chested figure somewhat larger than life: the sabra (native-born Israeli), who took that name from the fruit of the cactus that thrives in his land, a handsome, romantic idealist who furrowed his fields rather than his brow and was equally adept at digging wells for his country and graves for its enemies...
...eyed Moshe Dayan's gravestone will read THE HELL YOU SAY. He has more than one man's share of that tough, nose-thumbing certitude that makes the sabra (native-born Israeli) so exasperating, yet so fascinating. An unorthodox military genius who lost the illusions of childhood at twelve, when he took up a gun against Arab marauders in the Negev, Dayan in this book is thumbing his nose again. Only this time, it is not at the Arab world but at some of his own people...
Senior Paul Profeta lost the first bout against Columbia all-American Mark Berger, but won his next two against Berger 5-4 in the second round. The Lions won the sabra competition 6-3 while using seven different...
Turnpoint Storm, Sabra Samarr, The Turkish Delight, Sally the Shape, and Patti Wayne. The Devil's Mistress, have headed Casino play-mile is days gone by. Irma the Body has peeled her way through the theatre be many occasions. And Candy Barr, now one of the star attractions of the annual Huntsville Prison Rodeo at the Texas State Penitentiary, first came to the Casino as an unknown novice...