Word: arab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tiny Lebanon prospers by being the toll bridge between the West and the Arab world, and it preserves its bit of independence by a masterly balancing of opposites. It has not held a census in 15 years, because a census would probably undo the useful fiction that it is almost exactly half Christian, half Moslem. Its electoral balancing act is unique in all the world. Having long been plagued by bloody religious feuds, Lebanon now sees to it that every man running for the same office is of the same religion...
Like so many functionaries sidling from a throne room, murmuring polite words of undying admiration and fealty, the Arab nations were backing away from their once-feared leader, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...week's end Saud departed in his Convair in a flurry of gifts given and accepted, topped by Hussein's gift of a $350.000 twin-engined Vickers Varsity for Saud's personal use. Behind him Saud left a communique, clothed in the exquisite evasions of Arab courtesy, in which the two Kings declared their joint devotion to "military collaboration among the four Arab countries," their enmity for Israel, their "adoption of the positive neutrality policy and the rejection of all foreign pacts...
...once publicly described Islam as "this theology of an immoral Arab...
...wives and mothers, set off by mule caravan for Constantinople, this time to attend staff college. Shortly after their arrival war broke out in the Balkans, and Nuri went off to the front, but he and Jafar became convinced that advancement was being systematically denied them because they were Arabs. "If we are foreigners, then let's be foreigners," said Nuri. He took over leadership of a cell in the secret Covenant society plotting Arab independence from the decadent and dying Ottoman empire. All cell members wore hooded red gowns at meetings to keep their identity secret from each...