Word: arabicize
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WHEN I was 19 I was with a group that stopped in one of your smaller towns in New Hampshire. I was just crossing the street the morning after the show when these two ladies walked by talking to each other, you know; and they were talking in Arabic. The...
Burgess's ingenious plot is couched in some of the most high-powered and imaginative language (including Russian, Arabic, Gothic, Latin, Spanish, and dialects) since Joyce. (A Clockwork Orange, Burgess's best-known work, is written in a hybrid argot of his own invention.) But Joyce had many voices and...
*The word derives from the Arabic hash-shashin, "those who use hashish." At the time of the Crusades, a secret sect of the Mohammedan Ismailians employed terrorists while they were ritually high on hashish, which is similar to marijuana.
Such is Jordan's mood toward the men it calls fedayeen -the Arabic word for freedom fighters. Though he has in the past often declared his opposition to the terrorists King Hussein last week changed his tune, defended 'those who struggle against Israelis occupying Arab territory. But to...
The debate was brought to the point of national spychosis last week with the publication of the third book about Philby so far this year: The Spy Who Betrayed a Generation, by three Sunday Times reporters who followed Philby's tracks for nearly a year, going back to examine...