Word: abu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recited their afternoon prayers and then sold several thousand acres of Israeli farm land to a smiling Arab sheik in return for his promissory note for 500,000 Israeli pounds. In exchange for a deposit of $17 down, the rabbis handed over legal ownership of the property to Abdullah Abu Kishek, then toasted the transaction with soda...
ENGINEERS now have something less than two years in which to accomplish one of the most intricate and delicate moving jobs in history-the removal to safe high ground of the fabled 3,000-year-old Temples of Abu Simbel on Egypt's Upper Nile (TIME, Nov. 23, 1959, et seq.). When the High Dam at Aswan is completed, the backed-up Nile waters will have inundated the present site of the temples. Last week an exhibition depicting this vast rescue operation opened in the Exhibition Center of the TIME & LIFE Building in Manhattan, the first place...
...Asia's burden of religious, linguistic and racial antagonism is added the weight of history. New grievances as well as old goad Asians to seek what Calcutta Philosopher Abu Sayeed Ayub calls "the appeasement of the ghosts of our ancestors by slaughtering members of another community." Conquerors have come and gone across Asia, sowing rancor as they marched. For generations after the Burmese raped Siam, Thai women wore crewcuts to avoid being hauled off by the hair. During World War II, brutality by the Japanese earned them loathing throughout Asia; until recently, any Japanese who toured the Philippines risked...
...world's freest capital markets and a Swiss-like secrecy law so rigid that any loose-tongued banker can be jailed for two years. Beirut's safety has also impressed some of the usually suspicious sheiks of the Persian Gulf. Sheik Shakhbut of Abu Dhabi, who earns $1,000,000 a week from his oil, insisted on burying his bank notes in his mud-brick palace-until silverfish began drilling through the bundles...
...week's end the Brazilian police arrested two men and were searching for a third, who is the prime murder suspect. No one in Syria was surprised to learn that the man wanted is a young Druze tribesman and a member of the Ghazali clan named Nawaf Abu Ghazali. He also had emigrated to Brazil and waited a decade to avenge the savage reprisals against his people almost 10,000 miles away in the Djebel Druze...