Word: agal
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...seven fitful weeks in Europe, in which he had driven his queen from his side, and disregarded all instructions to see his Swiss doctors (TIME, June 23), Talal had come home. Changing from Western to Arabic dress, he capped his kaffiyeh not with the usual double strand of gold agal worn by all royalty, but with the simple black commoner's cord he often prefers. A three-man regency council will continue to govern Jordan until either Talal recovers, or his son, Crown Prince Hussein, comes of age next...
...other spurs set Yeats agal-loping. In London as a young art student, it was occultism, and it sometimes smothered his early poetry. In Ireland he helped found the famed Abbey Theater, and, with George Bernard Shaw, the Irish Academy of Letters...
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