Word: abu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They imagine him to be tall and slim, with steely blue eyes and commanding voice. Actually his voice is soft, his eyes watery. A World War I wound clipped off a chunk of his jaw, bent his features into a permanent smile. Among the Arabs he is known as Abu Huneik (Father of the Little Chin...
Died. Air Vice Marshal Sir Umaid Singh Bahadur, 43, Croesus-rich Maharaja of Jodhpur, absolute ruler of 2½ million people in the state that gave its name to a kind of riding breeches; after an appendectomy; in Mount Abu, Rajputana. Westernized at India's Mayo College (for princely sprouts), the Maharaja learned to fly, imported tile bathrooms, favored his subjects with land, judiciary and educational reforms; but he visited England as an Oriental despot with 70 polo ponies, four wives, 100 servants...
...Abu Huneik ("Father of the Jaw") because of the World War I scar on his chin...
...schoolmaster, Glubb Bey (his Arab title) graduated first in his class from Woolwich Royal Military Academy. Son of a major general, he knew his war business, went to France in World War I as a sapper. There he received a chin wound which later inspired Arabs to nickname him Abu Huneik (Man with the Small Jaw). In 1920 he was sent to Mesopotamia; he has remained there, except for a few short trips, ever since. Before World War II, if he was not living quietly with his wife in a native-style house at Amman, capital of Trans-Jordan...
...continued on third page following) call him Abu-el-Hanak ("The Man With The Jaw"). He won their admiration and confidence by leading bands of Iraqi and Bedouin tribesmen against raiders from Saudi Arabia in 1924. Quiet, studious, slender, stooped, Major Glubb spoke Arabic even better than Lawrence did, was believed to have even more influence than Lawrence...