Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...given signal, little men climbed nimbly up hastily erected ladders and began dousing the roof, each other, and, theoretically, the conflagration with streams of water from their fire hoses. With Chief Air Raid Warden Aldrich Durant looking on, the valiant blaze-battlers finished their task, and like the Arab of old, silently stole away...
...soldiers clung like goats to the rocky hillside, dug into shallow holes, anxiously watched the German positions on the opposite ridge. In the peaceful valley between, where an ancient Roman column stood against the green olive groves of Arab farms, a shell from a U.S. 105-mm. howitzer exploded, sending a white puff rolling up through Faïd Pass...
...lights, but I couldn't have anyway as the power had been turned off, although I didn't know it. By the time I got down into the street, quite a number of people had appeared but no one seemed to know what was up. An Arab told me that sometime before the sirens sounded, planes had flown low over the town and had dropped circulars which said the Americans were coming. I was so incredulous that I told him I would give him ten francs for one! Just about then we could hear heavy firing...
...gave the mother seemed to daze her still more. When they made her understand that the money was actually hers and all that she was expected to do was to sign a receipt, she simply became wide-eyed. Her signature consisted of a thumb print! I am told the Arabs would not have considered it proper to receive money in that way without a receipt of that sort. The light in the room was so dim that I could hardly see to prepare the receipt. It was almost miraculous how quickly and how silently small candles and strange Arab lamps...
...From an Arab leader, 2,500 miles across the desert from Casablanca where President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill were discussing policy, came a call last week for the extension of the Atlantic Charter* to the Arab world. Said the Emir Abdullah of Trans-Jordan...