Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegation had an idea. The U.S.'s Herschel V. Johnson suggested that if the British would agree to keep their troops in Palestine till next July 1 (and it might take at least that long for the troops to be pulled out, anyway), the separate Jewish and Arab states could be set up next summer...
...opener for many a reader fattened on the journalists' "blood and guts" legend: "Just finished reading the Koran-a good book and interesting." Patton had a keen eye for native customs and methods, wrote knowingly of local architecture, even rated the progress of word-of-mouth rumor in Arab country at 40-60 miles a day. In spite of his regard for the Koran he concluded: "To me it seems certain that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of women is the outstanding cause for the arrested development of the Arab. . . . Here, I think...
...change? Washington's best guess was that Novikov was needed else where, and that it didn't much matter who was the Kremlin's office boy in Washington. Novikov speaks good Arabic. He was Minister in Cairo during the war, and he got behind the scenes in the Arab states. With the Arab hive buzzing over Palestine the Kremlin might well have a new job for Novikov...
...Arabs have vested interest in a static society," he declared, adding he had come to the conclusion that the Arab and Jewish societies are incompatible, and that partition is necessary...
...19th Century. His reputation is having harder going in the 20th. It is now well established that Missionary Livingstone did not consider himself lost, and had little desire to be "found." But though Stanley came back without his man (Livingstone preferred to continue exploring and freeing natives from Arab slave traders), Journalist Stanley's trip built circulation for James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald, and a profitable career for himself...