Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...square, Jewish children romped around a gnarled sycamore tree last week, playing a popular game, the local version of cowboys & Indians; it is called "Jews & Arabs." Watching them was an elderly Bulgarian Jew who was selling small balloons from a folding table. Fifty yards away was the two-story stone building where, in old days, Arab fellahin used to sit gossiping over Turkish coffee. Part of one wall of the Arab cafe lay in rubble. The cafe had been hit by an Israeli shell. On the undamaged section of the building was a bright new sign in Hebrew: "Akir Office...
...only occasional work picking oranges, and the 'family's stake is going for food. But Moshe, who spent three years in a British detention camp in Aden, plans to stay. He says: "The Arabs of Yemen hated us. There we had a three-story house made of stone. But this will be our home...
Just a few blocks away, in Guatemala's green stone National' Palace, President Juan José Arévalo, once the Legion's staunch supporter, had also accepted its demise. He was still half-heartedly chasing his old dream of a democratic Central American confederation, but he had shifted to diplomatic means. The new approach involved cooing noises aimed toward Honduras and El Salvador. Inspired newspaper stories spoke hopefully of future meetings between Arevalo and Honduras' new President Juan Manuel Gálvez, between Arévalo and the Salvadorean junta's Major Oscar Osorio...
...Democracy is God's way of life," Helen Maude Cam said last night at a meeting held in the Rhinelander Foundation. Professor Cam, Samuel Zemurray, Jr., and Deris Zemurray Stone-Radcliffe Professor History, said that in this world God has given us the freedom of choice between good and evil. We know what the laws of God are. If we fail because we break His laws we have only ourserves to blame. Such is democracy, Cam concluded...
...strike violence, the Town Council was taking no chances. They called in the Ontario provincial police to help halt the daily mix-up between strikers and nonstrikers. The provincials seized a blackjack from one worker. Two policemen were stabbed with women's hatpins. Children on the sidelines threw stone-filled snowballs...