Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Abdullah (as the British call him) went to see Colonel T. E. Lawrence in 1916 about the Arab war against the Turks, the canny Colonel sized him up as follows: "I began to suspect him of a constant cheerfulness. ... He jested with all comers in most easy fashion: yet, when we fell into serious talk, the veil of humor seemed to fade away as he chose his words, and argued shrewdly. ... As our conversation continued, I became more and more sure that Abdullah was too balanced, too cool, too humorous to be a prophet. . . . His value would come, perhaps...
...Through the process of raiding his treasury and letting the British bail him out, Ab dullah presently found himself completely under the thumb of Great Britain. Last week the British used Abdullah and his kingdom for the purpose they had fore seen long ago: as a nucleus for an Arab front against the Axis and as a threat to French-held Syria...
What Next? The Libyan campaign was won but not finished. One of the problems was all too familiar to the British: how to administer the natives. In his recent speech summing up the Battle of Cyrenaica, Winston Churchill said: "The unhappy Arab tribes who have for 30 years suffered from the cruelty of Italian rule . . . have at last seen their oppressors in disorderly flight or led off in endless droves as prisoners of war." Last week, near the white walls, bright cupolas and date palms of Giarabub Fort, 150 miles south of Bardia, and the last East Libyan post still...
...travelled extensively in Europe and while in Palestine in 1938 he saw the British crush the Arab revolt "in efficient manner." He attended school in France before coming to Harvard, where he concentrated in French literature...
Uncle Khosrove was a fierce and sorrowful man with the biggest mustache in the San Joaquin Valley. He used to sit in silence by the hour with his heartbroken little friend, a "poor and burning Arab." When the Arab died Khosrove "stood in the parlor with his hat on his head and said, The Arab is dead. He died an orphan in an alien world, six thousand miles from home. He wanted to go home and die. He wanted to see his sons again. He wanted to talk to them again. He wanted to smell them. He wanted to hear...