Word: arabian
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...wish, within the few words above, I could have described to those I am leaving the growth process involved in the culmination of my feelings. If I have failed, perhaps my fellow graduates can clarify my attempt. Jack H. Arabian...
...made a career of the lost art of manuscript illumination. During World War II, he turned his hand to anti-Nazi political cartoons (for PM, Collier's, LIFE), later collected the best of them in a book, The New Order. Coming out next year: his edition of Arabian Nights...
...ideas, he adds up to hatred of the Jews, strict devotion to the letter of the Mohammedan religion, and friendship for the U.S., though he is furious at President Truman's support of Israel. Ibn Saud used to live off tolls he collected from Mecca pilgrims, but the Arabian-American Oil Co. proved even more lucrative, made Ibn Saud one of the world's richest men. He is too old and complacent to go out of his way to help the West or assume active leadership of the Middle East...
...Britain's old scheme for uniting Jordan with Iraq into a single, pro-British kingdom that would dominate the Arab world. The Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister was sent to London to sell the plan. Britain would be promised bases in the new Greater Syria. If it rejected the plan (as it undoubtedly would), the Middle East might lapse back into terrorism...
...Mohammed neglected to set up a succession, and his oldest and closest associates chose as Caliph [successor] Abu Bakr, who immediately directed the Moslem breakout from the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabs' two great neighbors, the Persian and Byzantine empires, were exhausted by long wars...