Word: arabian
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...same at Montazah, Farouk's summer home. Beside the King's bed were six telephones, two radios and his field marshal's uniform. In Queen Narriman's boudoir lay her latest reading matter: Lady Chatterley's Lover and Arabian Nights in French. In Her Majesty's bathroom still hung her dainty white bathrobe, left behind in the rush...
...spent more scores of pages, filled with impressive looking charts and interweaving lines of "interlocking directorates," to show the formation of huge joint international companies (e.g., Arabian American Oil Co.), which the U.S. Government had actually encouraged and often aided...
...Cairo, taxi drivers stopped their cabs to join the kneeling crowds outside the packed mosques. At Dhahran on the Persian Gulf, the Arabian-American Oil Co. eased its daily work schedules for its fasting, prayerful employees. The Arab cafes of Algiers were empty. In Beirut and Karachi, Western-educated university students put aside their examination papers to meditate on the Koran. Five times a day, from the holy shrines of Mecca to the blackened bamboo mosques of the southern Philippines, muezzins spoke the Arabic words calling the faithful to prayer in a special time of self-denial and self-examination...
...Cliffe Scherazades and their dates will enter "The Arabian Nights" to spend "One Night in a Thousand" at their annual spring formal this year. The affair takes place on May 17, which makes it the main formal dance of the Senior Weekend...
What's the Use? (Johnnie Ray; Columbia). Sobber Ray restrains his tears but not his gulping and gobbling of the lyrics; the song, above an "Arabian" Latin rhythm, is thoroughly ordinary. For those who can stand larger doses, Columbia has also issued his first album (Johnnie Ray, 8 sides), including Don't Blame...