Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crashing on its return journey. A little before 7 p.m., another telephone call announced the safe return of all aircraft. Jubilantly, the gathering celebrated the event, and the meeting broke up. Begin had only one other chore to perform. At 7 p.m., he called U.S. Ambassador to Israel Samuel Lewis with news of the successful raid. Lewis' laconic reply...
...immediate response. He knows that there will be none. A letter is not written for response but for effect. In that, it is not only art but a statement of esteem, since the effect is sought of a particular person. Even the bitterest letter is a form of homage. Samuel Johnson once wrote Lord Chesterfield, giving the earl a piece of his mind. But the mind of which the letter was a piece was the greatest in England...
Meanwhile, Israeli aircraft and seaborne forces again attacked Palestinian positions up and down the coast of Lebanon. The intensive raids had started the week before, and prompted two visits to Begin's office over the weekend by U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis. The Ambassador passed along complaints from the State Department that Israel's actions were endangering Habib's mediation efforts. In a CBS interview, Begin responded that he had explained to Habib "an unaccountable number of times" that Israel intended to continue its "preventive operations against the P.L.O. terrorists...
...Gerson Samuel Nason...
...sales: $3 billion). As an example of the financial shopping center of the future, Merrill Lynch, in addition to selling its traditional stocks and bonds, will provide customers with money-market funds, sell them life insurance, buy or sell their homes, and lend them money. Says an admiring Samuel H. Armacost, president of Bank of America: "We've already got the nationwide banking of the future. It's called Merrill Lynch...