Word: arabian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's longest waterways. The route will cut the average shipping time from Iran to Germany from 50 to 25 days. It will slice 2,700 miles from the previous circuitous route, which took ships through the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf...
...more than $1,000,000 for his unselfishness. Khaled, who is known as "the quiet one," has assisted Feisal at international conferences, currently is Saudi Arabia's Deputy Premier. A painfully shy, hardworking administrator, he is an expert hunter, relaxes by competing in camel-milk-drinking contests with Arabian desert tribes...
...sharper manner than his oils. Matisse found that his late, swimming arabesques could be better executed by stencils than by brush bristles. Miro learned that his love of texture was readily brought out by the relief in paper of etching. In Chagall's 13 editions on the Arabian Nights, he found that colors of lithography achieved a brazen Oriental romance that oils would have subdued with their filmy translucence...
Last week the truce game was over. Tribesmen supporting the Imam poured out of their mountain fastness to launch a successful attack on Razeh, near the Saudi Arabian border. The jubilant royalists claimed to have killed, wounded and captured more than a thousand Egyptians and republicans. At the same time, two tribes in the mountains 20 miles from San'a declared their support for the royalists and drove back an Egyptian force sent to subdue them...
...sent an estimated $55 million flowing to Beirut, meaning that ex-King Saud has finally given up hope of regaining his throne from his half brother King Feisal. Were Saud determined to fight for his crown, he would instead be converting some of his considerable foreign assets into Saudi Arabian rials to ship home and use in bribing Bedouin sheiks to revolt against Feisal. Meanwhile, money is beginning to flow back into Saudi Arabia, too, from rich Saudis convinced Feisal means business and is in power for good...