Word: armenians
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...Hecht's source, adding with either remarkable disingenuousness or extraordinary lack of judgment that the name was difficult to spell and he couldn't remember it. Eventually, under pressure, Bothmer produced that hard-to-spell name and some letters by the bowl's former owner, an Armenian coin collector in Beirut named Dikran A. Sarrafian...
...Tooth Merchant, Sulzberger's knowledge is very much in evidence, but so is a distinct sense of humor. He presents a slippery, multilingual Armenian named Kevork Sasounian, who discovers the original dragon's teeth (sacksful of them), which have been lying in a cave in Asia Minor since Cadmus' and Jason's time. What to do? Why, sell them as potential shock troops to the highest bidder in the cold war world of the 1950s...
...doctrine formulated by the first seven ecumenical councils, and in the duty of reverence toward the Virgin Mary. But Orthodoxy rejects papal infallibility and permits married men to become priests, though only celibates can become bishops. Orthodoxy also makes a distinction between its churches and "Oriental" churches like the Armenian Church, which differ from them doctrinally on the nature of Christ but are sometimes confused with them by Westerners...
This time (the 14th), Ambler's protagonist is someone called Michael Howell. He is, in fact, deceptively named and only "fractionally British," less one man than "a committee of several," according to his mistress, a mixture of Lebanese, Armenian, Syrian and Greek Cypriot. Out of innocence, cupidity and ill fortune, Howell finds himself dragged whimpering into cooperation with Arab guerrillas so sleazy that they have been disowned by a Palestine liberation organization...
...celebrated "Mr. Five Percent," who helped negotiate oil contracts between Arab countries and Western oil firms and wound up owning 5% of the Iraq Petroleum Co. Nubar was born in a small village on the Bosporus at a time when the Turks were enforcing their rule by slaughtering the Armenian minority. He was spirited out of the country in a Gladstone suitcase and taken to England, where he attended Harrow and Cambridge. Though for many years he claimed Iranian nationality and in 1965 regained his Turkish citizenship, he spent most of his life in England...