Word: sabra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cordials, too, are increasingly popular. Sales of Seagram's Leroux liqueurs in 50 flavors are growing at a rate of 7%. The company's imported labels -Vandermint, Sabra-are also doing nicely. Hiram Walker, one of the largest sellers of liqueurs in the U.S., came out last year with its 30th flavor-Swiss chocolate almond. A subsidiary of Jack Daniel Distillery markets 27 flavors of Bols liqueurs; National Distillers' De Kuyper collection has 39 flavors...
...grumbles from Labor's dovish coalition ally, the leftist Mapam group, the virtually unanimous vote for Peres seemed to unite the splintered Labor Party. Voters accepted Rabin's abdication with mixed feelings. He had been an uncertain and disappointing leader. But he was also the first sabra (native-born Israeli) to become Premier; the abrupt downfall of one of the "sons of the founders" had tragic communal overtones...
...National District Attorneys Association in Colorado on crime and terrorism. The inspector general has no magic up his sleeve, just innovative police methods to block what he calls "sophisticated, modern crime." Since taking over as chief of Israel's police force in 1972, Rosolio, a British-accented Sabra whose donnish manner masks a tough law enforcer, has added 5,000 men and women to the force. Though some gripe that Rosolio is "too intellectual," he is convinced that police must generate new ideas about crime prevention and has hired lawyers, psychologists and military men. Even his critics concede that...
Before leaving Tel Aviv, Rabin told newsmen that he was undertaking the West German visit "with mixed feelings as a Jew and as an Israeli." A Sabra who was born in 1922 on a farm near Jerusalem, Rabin nonetheless still counts himself "an heir to the Holocaust." As if to emphasize that point, his next stop after Bergen-Belsen was West Berlin, where he paid a visit to the city's Jewish Community Center. It stands on the site of what was once Berlin's Central Synagogue. All that remains of the original building is a chunk...
...should there be any surprise that Yitzhak Rabin, a Sabra and inured to years of struggle, is now measuring up to the challenge these new crises pose? After all, a characteristic of the modern Israeli has been his ability to perform under extreme pressure...