Word: syrian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concentration camps, ghettoes, banks, courtrooms, theaters and factories of Europe the Chosen People had assembled and had won their first great military victory since Judas Maccabeus* beat the Syrian Nicanor at Adasa 2,109 years...
...Louise knows too well that though her husband may once have loved her, he feels nothing for her now but pity. And since "it had always been his responsibility to maintain happiness in those he loved," Scobie one day sets his integrity aside, surreptitiously borrows money from an unscrupulous Syrian (the only man who can afford the loan) and sends Louise off on the long vacation that is her heart's desire. It is also his (unadmitted) heart's desire to have...
...what Scobie thinks of as pity, proceeds inexorably to destroy him. A young girl, survivor of a torpedoed ship, is carried into his life on a stretcher, and rather than let her innocence be corrupted by a promiscuous R.A.F. pilot, Scobie becomes her adulterous protector. Blackmailed by the Syrian loan-shark, Scobie, who cannot bear to let his wife suffer, buys off the Syrian by helping him to smuggle diamonds through the British blockade...
...were still talking belligerently and boasting of famous victories-by-communiqué. The sober facts were that fighting so far had been on a small scale,* that (except for Arab raids into Galilee) all of it had taken place outside Israel's borders as fixed by U.N., that Syrian and Lebanese troops had been driven from northern Palestine, that the Egyptians were hard-pressed south of Tel Aviv, and that the Jews had not been able to open the road to Jerusalem. Mediator Bernadotte might be helped by the fact that both Jews and Arabs seemed reluctant to throw...
Clean Sweep. In northern Galilee, where the Israelis were not opposed by Abdullah's Legion, they had swept out all Arab forces in "Operation Broom." Last week, in Palestine's oldest kibbutz (communal settlement) south of the Sea of Galilee, stood a fire-blackened Syrian tank, which the Jewish defenders had stopped with a homemade Molotov cocktail. A scorched trail led from the tank to the charred torso of an Arab tankman who had died trying to escape the flames...