Word: aleppo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thereafter Dahish was not long for Lebanon. Police nabbed him, beat him up, whisked him across the mountains to Aleppo in Syria. The battered hypnotist went off to live quietly in the little village of Kamishli in the Jezireh, on the upper reaches of the Euphrates...
...whose bald head shows scars of crusted ringworm suffered during his youth Dr. Ronchese suspects of being a European, because that type of ringworm is prevalent among Europe's poorer classes but not in the U.S. A man with a wartlike scar of Aleppo or Jericho boil is probably an Armenian, because the disease rarely occurs outside of Asia Minor and is most common in Armenia. An old man scarred by bites of the body louse (vagabond's disease) is probably a tramp...
Death in Damascus. In all of Syria and Lebanon, the French had only five or six battalions when the riots started. But the French set their hated Senegalese troops to "restoring order" with the utmost violence. By last week Horns, Hama and Aleppo were under control, twelve French soldiers and several hundred Arabs had been killed before, in the words of a French communique, "at Damascus it was necessary to use artillery...
...came the explosion. In Damascus and Aleppo anti-French riots broke out. Scores of people were killed or injured. In Beirut French shops were burned. (British stores in the same blocks were spared). Strikes spread, markets closed. Nervously, the French explained that the Senegalese had arrived because the Levant was now a French redeploying area for the Far Eastern war. Cried The Lebanon's Premier Abdul Hamid Keramy: "The French think that with their armies they can deprive us of our independence. . . . They can cut off our heads and destroy us, but they cannot touch our independence...
...that only power counts is what set him on his vicious trail of plunder, loot and robbery, brought him dubious fame and control of 18 villages-one for each wife-and wealth which he is sinking into Turkish gold and British sovereigns and real estate in Latakia, Damascus and Aleppo. Thus it is that, backed by 15 or 20 thousand rifles, he could proclaim himself 'god' and make the people believe...