Word: arabian
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...unless the parties being investigated agree at the start to accept the philosophy of the committee and realize that any argument with its decisions can come only on the basis of neglect or misuse of the facts. Neither the cynical buck-passing of Prime Minister Attlee nor the hysterical Arabian harangues have dealt with the facts presented in the investigation; the complaints of Zionists and President Truman's spineless praise have been just as blissfully uncognizant of the realities of the present situation...
Under First Mate F. Henry Haas, the Ada Rehan staggered on. At an Arabian port the crew refused to serve further under Haas, but were at last won over. In Khorramshahr, Haas went ashore, came back with a beer-drinking baboon. When the crew tried to cut down the baboon's beer ration, he broke from his cage, bit Haas and splashed ashore. The men organized a safari, chased the baboon and killed...
...came popular music (current hit: a romantic tune, Song of the Apple), comedy shows and precisely timed modern, democratic plays (John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln). The most popular storyteller, sad-faced, bowlegged Musei, dropped the tale of Sugato Sanshiro, the legendary judo champ, and picked up the Arabian Nights, Aesop's Fables, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson. He even did a five-night version of Gone With the Wind...
...Century, Saint Anthony the Egyptian renounced all worldly joys, went off into the Arabian Desert to live the life of a hermit. He had a terrible time of it. Often he would glance up from his prayers to see Satan hovering before him in the gloom of his abandoned fort. And Satan was hard to recognize; usually he looked like the things Anthony missed most...
...Arabia, or the $6 million a year that blear-eyed Ibn Saud gets from U.S. petroleum concessions. Yahya's Yemen has no oil with which to bargain in the bazaars of international high finance, but it is strategically located near the foot of the Red Sea, across the Arabian Peninsula from the Persian Gulf, toward which Russia reaches south and east...