Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arab members of his bureau had already celebrated Courban Bairam, their holy festival; the Copts and Orthodox adherents would not celebrate theirs until Jan. 7. From past experience Zinder knew that by some miracle of cookery the turkey would come out right. The cook, who abhorred pots, would beat together a pair of Shell gasoline tins and roast the big bird over "one of those vertical blow torches known as Primus stoves." Nevertheless, there would be open house Christmas Day at the Zinder's home on the Nile, and the weather promised to be typical for Egypt in December...
Rabbi Lipman, who made several visits to Palestine during the war as an Army chaplain, will concentrate on the topic "Haganah: Defense and Resistance." Largest and most moderate of the underground organizations, Haganah, whose name means defense, was organized by the Jewish Agency during the Arab riots to protect the Hebrow settlements...
...traffic island. Then, with door open and amatol mines falling out, it swerved and hit a child, crumpled into a tree, and exploded, blowing the two occupants into tattered shreds. Several houses on both sides of the street collapsed as the mines went off. All that remained of one Arab-style villa was a wall with a torn picture of Dr. Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism...
...with Oxford accents, worn, pale graduates of Europe's D.P. camps, Jews from Finland and Aden, Dutch Guiana and China. All had come to Basel to answer the question: "Shall the Congress approve the Jewish Agency's formula for the partition of Palestine into separate and independent Arab and Jewish states as a bargaining basis with Britain?" On this question depended Jewry's attitude toward the London conference in January...
...partitionists had already been given the go-ahead by U.S. Secretary of State Byrnes. As the Congress got under way, they received unexpected impetus from another all-important direction. Despite fierce Arab opposition, Ernest Bevin was reliably reported as having adopted "some form of partition" as Britain's official policy...