Word: aleppo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aleppo!" In the U.N., Syrian Foreign Minister Salah el Bitar, sounding more than ever like a Soviet ventriloquist's dummy, demanded a full-scale debate on "the threat to Syria's security." Said he: "The Turkish troops have apparently been given a slogan, 'To Aleppo!', which they now publicly repeat." Soviet Delegate Andrei Gromyko delightedly expanded the charge: "Apparently," said he, "the intention of the U.S.A. is to employ in Syria the method it resorted to in suppressing the independence of Guatemala." U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge promptly welcomed "an opportunity for a full airing...
...opening of a cotton festival in Aleppo last week, Syria's Agriculture Minister Hamid Khuja announced to a cheering throng that the Soviet Union had pledged itself to buy all surplus Syrian farm produce-as part of an estimated $240 million deal for Soviet-bloc tanks, guns and jet fighters. Other Syrian leaders were proclaiming that a Soviet economic mission was in Damascus to arrange Soviet aid of $500 million for building irrigation works, roads and other development projects...
...Euphrates Valley and the wheat-growing plains of the extreme northeast, most of Syria's fertile land lies in a narrow, well-watered belt paralleling the Mediterranean coast. So do the nation's two biggest cities (each about 500,000 population): the commercial center of Aleppo and colorful Damascus, which boasts that it is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, and is as notable for its strikingly modern apartments as its ancient bazaars and narrow alleys...
...bank experiences. He was born in Cambridge, and has remained here all of his 65 years. When he first began work as a teller, he also taught piano, and though he admits "I don't think I could play a five finger scale now," Lindberg still sings with the Aleppo Temple Shirne Chanters. Since he is a bachelor, Masonry is his major hobby, and h e has been a York Rite Mason for 38 years...
...downing a highball or two. He was discouraged: everything seemed to be going wrong. For four years he had tried to unify and stabilize Syria, but the country was riddled with disaffection and on the edge of revolt. At that very hour, armed units patrolled the streets of Horns, Aleppo, and Damascus itself, and soldiers battled sullen Druze tribesmen in the remote mountainous province of Jebel Druze...