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that the Hanukkah miracle happened. The Assyrians were overthrown in Jerusalem, and according to legend, when the Jews returned to purge the temple of its alien idols and rededicate it, there was only sacred oil enough for one day's burning of the temple lamp. Yet the lamp burned eight full days...
...also violate the freedom of other nations by exposing them to fulfill the historic task set for her as for others: to secure on the European continent the basis of a system of freedom by ever closer cooperation with all European nations against the menace of a system alien to their very nature and essence...
Since the evening before Crimeds had been carrying out one of the most elaborate defense operations since the heyday of Al Capone. Cars patrolled Cambridge streets and pickets guarded the Houses and Yard, but the only alien activity was a premature distribution attempt in Kirkland around...
...pained to learn that Ormandy had chosen only one-the Tchaikovsky. As Pianist Gilels stepped onto the stage of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week, his short, stocky figure made him look boyish, his high cheekbones and flat face made him look Russian. But he did not seem alien. Like any pianist, he laboriously cranked his piano stool up and down before getting down to business. Then, after the orchestra swept into the big, resonant opening chords, Gilels hammered out the all too familiar response with incredible vitality. His notes were crisp without dryness, brassy without clangor. With...
...refusal to ensure a fair trial to persons seeking employment either in the government or in certain areas of private industry. . . Congress could change this if it were not living in a atmosphere of all-pervasive fear. . . the judiciary could, if it chose, find adequate reason for outlawing the alien procedures which are becoming fixtures in the administrative process...