Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Squire & the King. What said the Squire of Hyde Park, schooled at Groton and Harvard, to the Lord of Arabia, schooled in the Koran, the desert, the raid, the running horse, the harem? The only direct news was official, and it was sparse...
...President left Yalta, and journeyed by road to Sevastopol, where there are many ruins, and flew on the wings of his Army to the land of Egypt. And there he took ship and received the rulers of that land, and of Ethiopia and of Saudi Arabia, on the lakes called Bitter or Mara of which it was written (Exodus...
...destroyer, her taut beauty leashed in Jidda Bay, had dressed for the King of Saudi Arabia...
...banquet of spitted laham-mashwy and rice pilaff for the ship's officers. The royal servants continued to mistake the ship's Negro mess boys for slaves of the U.S. Navy. (Slave traders plying across the Red Sea have for centuries sold Negroes into slavery in Arabia...
Journey's end, 800 miles and two days from Jidda, was a crossroad of empires-Great Bitter Lake in the Suez Canal. There, aboard a U.S. cruiser, the President of the U.S. awaited the King of Saudi Arabia...