Word: abou
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once, at a meeting of political commissars, Lenin passed a note to Dzerzhinsky "How many vicious counter-revolutionaries are there in our prisons?" Dzeizhinsky's scribbled reply was: "Abou: fifteen hundred." Lenin nodded, made a cross on the note, and returned it to Dzerzhinsky. That night, on Dzerzhinsky's order, all 1,500 were shot. It turned out to be a mistake. As Lenin's secretary explained later: "Vladimir Ilyich usually puts a cross on a memorandum to indicate he has noted the contents...
...Swords. Haj Amin el Husseini, ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, in Cairo last week to keep an eye on League proceedings, said: "When the sword speaks, everything else must be silent." In Palestine his Arab organization was busy recruiting volunteers. At Lifta, a village near Jerusalem, Arab leader Sheilah Hasan Abou Saud exhorted Arab volunteers to fight Zionists. Beside him sat Kemal Ureikat, leader of the military organization Futu-wah (Youth...
...father. He seldom gave them help and never encouragement. As a result, when Lincoln scholars recently scrambled to Washington to see the Lincolniana that had been ordered sealed until 21 years after Robert's death they found few surprises and no answers to some of the major questions abou Abraham Lincoln's life...
Lebanese President Bechara El Khoury and Premier Riad Solh were still detained by the French. All titles and portfolios of the rump administration were held by Habib Abou Chala, shrewd, cautious Beirut lawyer, who had been Solh's Vice Premier, and fiercely mustachioed Emir Mejid Arslan, Defense Minister. Indolent, fun-loving Arslan is the reigning prince of the battlewise mountaineer Druses, who gave French forces a mauling in 1927, asked nothing better than another chance to fight the hated Faranji...
...Allen White last week suggested an "interesting game." He offered a book prize for the best list of ten Emporians most likely to be hanged to Commercial Street lampposts should Nazis capture the town. First entries came from an electrical-appliance dealer and a Santa Fe railway switchman. Like Abou ben Adhem, Editor White headed their lists...