He replies, half-humorously, that it all depends how well the book does there.
Burnett replied, half joking, "I wish the kid had retired one year earlier".
When, as honorary secretary I thanked him for coming on one occasion, he replied half joking, and wholly in earnest, "it is one of my duties to educate you politicians in military and scientific issues".
The nation's founding prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, had been replaced with the hesitating Levi Eshkol (asked if he wanted coffee or tea, the joke went, he replied, "half and half"); the Jews of Middle Eastern countries had begun to arrive in large numbers, and they made the founders nervous because of their Eastern ways; and Palestinian terror, based mostly in Syria, was escalating.
"Can you think of anything to do?" "Ummmm," I replied, half asleep, "I don't have a clue".
"I said, 'What do you mean, be a nun?" Sister Camille recalled replying, half-jokingly.
"He was mayor of New York back in the 1930s and '40s," I replied, "half-Jewish and a Zionist".
"And you don't know how long it will take?" "I'm banking on about two and a half hours," he replied, half-certainly.
Halifax replies Almost half of UK adults have little or no savings.
