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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deir Yassin became a synonym among Arabs for Jewish brutality. Last week, in a Tel Aviv court, its bloody ghost rose again to plague the new Jewish state. Four Irgunists wounded in the massacre had demanded war veterans' pensions; the Israeli Defense Ministry had rejected their requests, ruling that their wounds had not been suffered in "organized action against Arab bands or invaders." The Tel Aviv court decided otherwise, held that the Deir Yassin attack (but not the massacre) was, in fact, an organized action, and commanded the reluctant Ben-Gurion government to pay the pensions. The news rated...
...female flowers of Indian hemp, is the Eastern version of marijuana. It was once the favorite stimulant of the Assassins (more properly Hashish-ins), a secret society of Shiite fanatics founded in the 11th century, whose drastic political actions led to the gradual adoption of their name as a synonym for killer...
...Americans, who have never under-esimated the power of advertising, there was new evidence of its effects last week. In Haiti, Dynaflow is used as a synonym for a wealthy man or an expensive product, e.g., "Isn't his new house Dynaflow?" (The name was first used as a term for politicians because they all drove Buicks with Dynaflow transmissions.) In Israel, salmon is known only as "fresh" because the label on a can of U.S. salmon always has the word in big letters. And in Greece, a pretty girl is a "nylon...
...world, and his work with diffraction gratings, which could divide the spectrum into 1,000 shades, revolutionized much of astronomy and physics research. His Physical Optics became the classic work in the field; his experiments achieved such renown that the term "Wood Experiment" became a scientist's synonym for ingenuity and perfection...
...years he made The New Yorker a synonym for urbanity, but he himself remained a bawling, rough-cut outlander from Aspen, Colo. A catty old friend, Alexander Woollcott, once described him as looking like "a dishonest Abe Lincoln." Rumpled, wild-haired and irascible, Ross talked in an ear-splitting voice, a combination of rasp and quack. He often expressed himself in skid-row profanity, or by mere grunts or gap-toothed grins. He had the energy of a bull, and a bull-like charm. Though he often sounded as crass as a cymbal, he had an amazing sensitivity for words...