Word: arabian
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...this may only be the beginning. Bond's publisher received an approving letter from an organization on the Arabian gulf known as the Bahrain Dead Cat Society (slogan: FELIX MORTE). The society's letterhead notes that it is affiliated with the North American Dead Dog Society, the Kenyan Institute for Crushed Aardvarks and the Fiji Squashed Squid Squad...
...such kindred creatures as lions and tigers have inexplicably failed. In any case, last week's success raises hopes that similar transfer techniques can be used to ensure the survival of other endangered species as well. The Bronx Zoo hopes to perform the same feat with a rare Arabian oryx...
From Bedouin tent encampments to the traffic-choked streets of Riyadh and Jidda, Saudi Arabians by the hundreds of thousands turned introspective last week as religious sentiment swept their land. It was the start of Ramadan, the high holy month of Islamic fasting. But Ramadan or not, it was also pretty much business as usual in one imposing Riyadh office building. Inside the high-rise tower that houses the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), computers kept humming and clerks kept counting as petrodollars continued to cascade into the desert kingdom's coffers at a rate of $320 million...
...such petrowealth power play would, of course, be dangerous for world political as well as financial stability, and so far the Saudis show no sign of undertaking it. That is to be expected. As the holder of more dollars than it knows what to do with, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency stands to gain much by caution and prudence, and to risk everything by impulsive actions that upset the world's finances. With enormous wealth comes large responsibility, and SAMA seems up to the challenge. -By Charles Alexander. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Adam Zagorin/Beirut
Indians armed with poisoned darts and arrows. Arabian assassins in black masks wielding wickedly whistling scimitars. Nazis by the jackbooted legion, including a Gestapo sadist always dressed in black, always giggling in happy anticipation of torturing someone. A cave where tarantulas drop from the ceiling by the bushel. An underground chamber alive with deadly snakes-7,500 of them...