Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The city is, of course, expensive. It also offers sometimes astonishing bargains if the shopper knows where to look. Between Fifth and Sixth avenues on 47th Street, for example, is the diamond district, one of the world's largest. Here diamond merchants, among them Hasidic Jews in black garb...
The climax of jubilation finally came and went. Would the rest of the year be an anticlimax? Perhaps, but it also might provide some time for further reflection and attention to some omissions. Despite the bestselling 1876, remarkably little was said or remembered about America's Centennial celebration. The...
It sounds like a story out of the Depression: depositors frightened about the safety of their savings make panicky mass withdrawals, threatening the stability of the institutions involved. Finally, worried legislators enact a freeze on deposits-a la Franklin Roosevelt's Bank Holiday of 1933-leaving tens of thousands...
Ultimately, the special "Jewish issues" will not be the sole factor in determining what Jews will do at the polls in November. The candidates' personalities and the full and complex spectrum of national issues are likely to count as much for Jews as for tens of millions of their...
The faceless, unpopular military junta in Addis Ababa known as "the Dergue" (literally, the shadow) last week launched an all-out campaign to end the 14-year-old civil war in Ethiopia 's breakaway northern province of Eritrea. Following an appeal by Ethiopia's strongman, Brigadier General Teferi...