Word: aryanized
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Racially Valid. On his orders, SS men carried out mass examinations of children in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Norway and France. Those who were healthy and reasonably Aryan-looking - preferably with blond hair, blue eyes and striking features - were pronounced racially valuable...
...piling monument upon monument. The contentions of monarchs and empires have stained it with blood, have wearied and refreshed its landscape repeatedly with mosques and cathedrals and fortresses. In the ebb and flow of histories and cultures it has time and time again been a flash-point where Aryan and Semite, Christian and Moslem met in a death embrace...
Muslims but not Arabs, the baggy-trousered, occasionally blue-eyed Aryan Kurds of Iraq make up about one-fourth of the country's population of roughly 10.4 million. The Kurdish guerrilla army, called Pesh Merga (which means "facing death"), is led by a tenacious nationalist, Mulla Mustafa Barzani, 75. It numbers about 40,000 regulars. Iraq can draw on a 90,000-man army that is well equipped and advised by the Soviet Union; Defense Minister Andrei Grechko flew to Baghdad for consultations soon after the negotiations between the government and the Kurds broke...
Though they share the same religion, the two countries could hardly be more different. Iraq is an Arab state, governed by the left-wing Baathist regime and aligned with Moscow. Iran is a conservative, Western-oriented monarchy whose people are of predominantly Aryan origin. The Iraqis are armed by the Soviets; the Iranians bought some $2 billion worth of U.S. arms last year...
What is really exceptional here, though, is the acting. Adam is cold, Aryan and deliberate, a Max von Sydow who is best when working with his hands, saying quietly, "Life is still long enough to learn how to dig." He bore suffering and experience well, which sets the mood of the second act. But the suffering of Eve is even more important...