Word: zion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel's end, the first of the Jews are on the homeward march. Occasionally moving in his hours of trial, Asch's man of God often seems less the eloquent, God-intoxicated psalm-singer of the great Biblical text ("Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion . . .") than a bearded positive thinker doling out pep talks to the dispirited...
Successful Blizzard. Over the years, Stix has started more than 100 artists, including Adolph Gottleib, Ben-Zion, Ad Reinhardt, James Lechay and Richard Pousette-Dart, on their ways to regular dealers. One day in 1947, a one-time clown turned waiter, Walter Philipp, showed up with armfuls of clown paintings. Stix decided to give him a try, found himself with a hit on his hands...
...Gaza strip is a geographic absurdity perpetuated by hate and pride. Ever since Israel's warriors swept south in 1948 to the Negeb desert, Gaza has stood as a defiant outpost in which Egyptian soldiers held out against Zion to the day of armistice. All around the 5-by-25-mile sand strip, a stealthy border war has since been waged, and blood spilled almost nightly...
...Lord will roar from Zion And utter His voice from Jerusalem . . . For three transgressions of Gaza and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof...
...Israel, .streets fluttered with black-draped flags, and the Knesset was crowded with grim-faced Israelis assembled to hear Premier Moshe Sharett say: "Egypt will not be sustained by the blood it has thus spilled. The devotion to Zion of untold numbers of Jews was not stifled in the past by persecution, nor will it be in the future...