Word: arabian
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Cares & Comforts. In the great cream-&-fawn meeting hall, there was a bustle of photographers around the Big Three delegations. Senator Vandenberg grandly promised a Saudi Arabian delegate: "We'll take care...
...Politics of Oil. But the niceties of palace protocol were surface symptoms. Beneath them stirred the tides of history. As a well-read Iranian, the Shah doubtless recalled the words of the Arabian Poet Abul Ala al Ma'arri: "History is a poem in which the words change, but the rhythm recurs." For Iran the rhythm of history was almost metronomic...
...medieval Jews were usurers (a profession forbidden to medieval Christians by their popes, and to medieval and modern Moslems by their Koran), what of Shakespeare with his Shylock, and Dickens with his Fagin; what of the Bible (I Thessalonians, II, 14-16); what of the Koran; what of the Arabian Nights, where a Jew is said to have cheated an orphan (Aladdin) and his widowed mother of the true price of a table service brought them by a jinn...
Back to Joshua. Ibn Saud traced the Arab title to Palestine back to the Canaanites, from whom the Jews took the country. He flatly called the Canaanites "arab" because they came from the Arabian Peninsula. A critic pointed out that the Jews may have come from there, too, although Ibn Saud would scarcely call them "Arab." Nor would scholars check Ibn Saud's calculation that the Jews had ruled Palestine for less than four centuries. Westerners who added up Ibn Saud's own disputable figures got 627 years; the King...
...Arabian-American Oil Co. (owned fifty-fifty by Standard Oil Co. of California and Texas Co.) paid a lot of the bills. Washington heard that Arabian-American's advances to the royal Saudi Arabian party ran well into six figures...