Worcester Telegram · 9 February 1951

CP-1951-014

Israeli-Arab Border Tension Increases

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Transcribed from the clipping

“Israeli-Arab border tension mounted yesterday in the wake of violence estimated to have taken 12 lives since Sunday.”

Context added by this archive

Twelve dead become tension, and tension is the subject of the sentence. Note the term doing the work:

Israeli-Arab, the conflict sense, five years before any American paper in this archive uses the same two words to name a person.

Cite this item

"Israeli-Arab Border Tension Increases," Worcester Telegram, 9 February 1951. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1951-014. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1951-014

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