Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Landing in Arab countries he found himself looked on suspiciously as a Zionist because he is a liberal Democrat and political clansman of Harry Truman, who had recognized Israel the day the tiny state was established. Humphrey conquered suspicion by listening attentively, answering Arab complaints with clear-cut definitions of U.S. aims, letting his hosts have the last word. The Arabs came to accept him as no Zionist, but a man of understanding and sympathy...
Although he seems to be losing the battle to rule the Arab world, Egypt's Colonel Nasser last week won control of what is now undeniably his, the Suez Canal...
...creating troubles among our neighboring countries. I don't believe Moscow is going to stop creating disturbances, so we must be careful not to allow Shepilov, Khrushchev and others to deal with our safety, our policy." As-Said was riding high: months ago he was isolated, the only Arab signer of the pro-Western Baghdad Pact; now his rivals in Syria and Egypt were the ones isolated...
...dishes and wet "nappies"' (diapers). At the slightest provocation Jimmy turns into a verbal epileptic, particularly concerning his wife -"When you see a woman in front of her bedroom mirror, you realize what a refined sort of a butcher she is. Did you ever see some dirty old Arab, sticking his fingers into some mess of lamb fat and gristle? Well, she's just like that...
VIRTUALLY unknown to the civilized world a century ago, Middle Africa sprawls forbiddingly across a full two-thirds of the earth's second largest continent, an area big enough to contain the entire U.S. with room to spare. On one side the hot Arab lands of North Africa are linked to Europe by more than 2,000 years of common history. At the other end descendants of 17th century Dutch settlers in the Union of South Africa boast a colonial past nearly as long as that of North America. But until the mid-19th century, Middle Africa was only...