Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...going to a job where I will have more opportunity for field work and research," Professor Coon said. His time here has largely been taken up with teaching, and the expert on North Africa and Arab culture has long wished to devote more of his energies to advanced study...
...Anxious." On Good Friday a small procession wound along the Via Dolorosa. At each station of Christ's journey to Calvary, Archbishop Arthur Hughes, Papal Internuncio at Cairo, genuflected and intoned a prayer; the crowd knelt on the cobbled street and answered. Along the route stood mildly curious Arab Tommy-gunners...
Next day, with the British army as intermediary, the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem negotiated the surrender with representatives of the Arab Higher Committee. A battalion of the Suffolk Regiment of the British army came up to enforce the surrender terms which had been radioed to the beleaguered Jews. When Arabs attacked, British soldiers crouched in a circle around the house, fired shots over the Arabs' heads. When the Jews surrendered, the British searched them; several of the Zionist militia-women had hidden ammunition in their blouses...
...Wonderful!" cried Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, secretary general of the Arab League, when he heard the news of the U.S. decision. Then he added more soberly that the Arabs would settle for nothing less than a full Zionist surrender. Said he: "I am afraid the Zionists will lose their heads. ... If the Jews fight, we will accept the challenge...
...night last week three inches of snow drifted down on the mosques, churches and synagogues of Jerusalem. In the sparkling morning, Jewish and Arab boys had a snowball fight across Princess Mary Avenue. Soon there would be different battles in that street...