Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Israel's warm embrace and a remarkable lack of discrimination between blacks and whites help ease the trauma. Until the mid-1980s rabbinic authorities questioned the Ethiopians' Jewishness. But the debate has subsided, and their Jewish credentials are now widely accepted. At least 400 Ethiopians have attended universities and 25 are officers in the army. Says Sergeant Shalom Sebate, who immigrated in 1985: "No one questions my authority. We're all Jews." Although the massive influx of Soviet Jews has overwhelmed the nation's resources, unemployment among the Ethiopians is lower than the national average, largely because of their willingness...
...price: as much as $6,800). The most popular model is equipped with six porcelain-coated grates, a grill and two gas ovens (one with an infra-red broiler that reaches 1500 degrees F in 30 seconds). Going all out, it can simultaneously broil shrimp kabobs for an appetizer, warm the soup, roast the leg of lamb, grill swordfish, steam petits pois, simmer wild rice, saute baby tomatoes, poach pears and flambe crepes suzette...
...this warm early fall day in the Big Apple, senior Tom Priore got the nod from Coach Joe Restic to start against the Lions. Priore did little to assuage Harvard's offensive worries, completing 2-of-7 passes for 15 yards on the afternoon. The unproductive passing game forced Harvard to run the football, and the Crimson achieved only limited success on the ground...
...exceptionally creative in almost everything she does," says Graham. "She can sing, she's an excellent photographer, a wonderful person, and just really warm...
...television set glows. On the screen are flashing images of violence from the strife-torn Middle East. A black-haired man with warm eyes sits besides a little girl, his daughter. Seeing the pictures of Israeli soldiers toting machine guns, bombed out store-fronts, hijacked airplanes, the man's thoughts turn to earlier days. He tells his daughter of what has been lost--a garden, a stone house overlooking the Meditteranean, a home...