Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letter to the Moslem wise men of Egypt's 1,000-year-old Al Azhar University, a distraught Iraqi electrician wrote: "I vowed to sacrifice my son for Arab unity. Now that it has been achieved, should I carry out my vow and kill my boy?" An Al Azhar scholar replied that he was moved by the writer's faith, but warned that Moslem law forbids human sacrifices. Therefore, "your vow carries no obligation and should not be executed...
...Baghdad called Hussein the "hireling king" and the "grandson of Uncle Sam," warned that flight was the only escape from "the noose the people are preparing for you." Instead of decamping, King Hussein last week closed his border against Syrian arms and agents, toured the old city of Jerusalem, Al Birah and Ramallah, where he chatted with army officers and inspected troops in their sandbag dugouts facing the Israeli positions along the frontier. In his determination to stay in power, Hussein jeered at Israel, partly to pacify the Palestinian Arabs, who make up two-thirds...
...Siggel, star pitcher for the Harvard boys, threw a no-hit game for seven innings until Al Daly hit a fierce bunt past third-baseman Petey Kann. The Crimson scored its lone two runs in the sixth inning on a 500 ft. blast by Al "Four Eyes" Crenshaw, one-time geologist and photo chairman. The play had been set up by a crucial bobble of an easy infield fly ball, hit by Richard "Gnat" Ruge...
Hopelessly out of contention, the varsity ten fought back anyway. After allowing four goals in less than five minutes at the end of the second quarter, the defensive trio of Charlie Kessler, Al Straus, and Fred Gates held the Tigers to just three more the rest of the afternoon...
...wasn't al smooth sailing," he says of his Harvard career. "For one thing, several persons in America thought they were in the running for the Comparative Philology chair, so that Lowell's choice gave great offense. Then, too, I have a reputation for being outspoken." No one would dispute this last admission; in his thirty-seven years at the University, Whatmough has done more speaking out than the rest of the Faculty combined. He loves to give opinions, delights in praising or damning with vehemence, and brooks no contradictions from his audience. "As a result I often find myself...