Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Basketball--Barbara Denison '48, Janice Gordon '48, Camilla Klein '48, Phyllis Stone '48, Judith Felton '49, Carol Jones '49, Gloria Livermore...
Since the strike started, the parties have been meeting every day without result. Work on the stone coping, all the interior partitions and on the penthouse stop the structure has been halted by the strike which is now affecting other workers. Carpenters and electricians are gradually laying down their tools as they catch up to the masonry work finished before the strike...
...coastal plain. The city's Jewish population, which used to buy 80 to 90% of its food from neighboring Arabs, now depends on food convoys from the Jewish settlements along the coast. One strongpoint on that road is the village of Kastel, a cluster of dirty stone huts, one big house and a mosque. Jewish Haganah fighters, after seizing it, held it early last week. Then, one morning at dawn, the Arabs counterattacked...
...partners bought from the Franklin D. Roosevelt estate last year for $85,000. The building, an old remodeled white farmhouse, has rooms for 44 guests, can accommodate 100 diners at a time. Next year the Roosevelts hope to build a much bigger place modeled after F.D.R.'s stone "hideaway house" at Hyde Park...
...letters, too, Chekhov expresses himself most explicitly about his writing creed: "My goal is to kill two birds with one stone: to paint life in its true aspects, and to show how far this life falls short of the ideal life." A writer, he insisted, "must be as objective as a chemist ... he must know that dung-heaps play a very respectable part in a landscape, and that evil passions are as inherent in life as good ones." Chekhov...