Word: ah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army commander is young King Hussein's young friend AH Abu Nuwar, 34. Able, articulate and British-educated, Lieut. Colonel Abu Nuwar was regarded as an ambitious intriguer by Glubb Pasha; he was packed off to Paris as military attache in 1954. Brought back by the King over Glubb's objections, Abu Nuwar became the leader of the free officers' group that got Glubb fired. Last week the King promoted Abu Nuwar to major general to preside over the 20,000-strong legion...
...gratifying his nostalgia: $70,000, the amount that Britain's revenooers collected from him because he had set foot on the tight little isle.* Last week, on his way to France by ocean liner, Expatriate Coward gazed fondly through a porthole when his ship put in at Plymouth. "Ah, this beautiful England!" sighed he. "One step on dear old England for me now and it's ?25,000 gone bang." Then, heart heavy but his bank account no lighter, he sailed on to France...
...seven he was nourishing a well-developed dislike for his allotted chores on the Roberts farm near Springfield, Ill.; everything came second to learning how to play games-basketball, baseball, anything at all. "He never had a ball out of his hand," his mother Sarah Roberts remembers. "Ah well," says his proud Welsh father Tom. "He could've done a lot worse...
...staid Hotel Plaza, paused between stomping and fingernail-castanetting to reminisce about his roving life and good times. One of diminutive (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) Dancer Escudero's closest barroom buddies was the late, bibulous portrayer of Montmartre, Maurice Utrillo. Was Utrillo ever sober? Snorted Escudero: "Ah, poor Maurice! When not in his cups he would fall down, so he sought to avoid sobriety at all costs!" Is Escudero's pal, Painter Salvador Dali (on hand at the Plaza opening with his antenna mustache attuned to the wild Spanish rhythms), a fraudulent art theorist? With...
...Ah, for the Middle Ages and the Age of Faith, sighs many a modern Catholic, when the undivided Church was the warp and the woof of daily life, when men and not machines were the makers and doers. Nonsense, said the Rev. Walter J. Ong, S.J. last week to the 14th annual Spring Symposium of the Catholic Renascence Society in Manhattan. Today, according to Father Ong, an assistant professor of English at St. Louis University, is more an Age of Faith than the 13th century ever...