Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, in the midst of the electoral heat when Hamid himself was having lunch in Tripoli, a band of prominent Franjiehs and Moawads journeyed from Zghorta to the nearby little village of Miziyara to attend memorial services for a neighborhood sheik. The Karams were invited, but decided not to go. As a man of the cloth, Simaan Dweihi was also present. As the various churchmen and family elders made their way toward the little parish church of Our Lady of Miziyara, their henchmen gathered in a nearby café, eying each other with the distrust common to the district...
...strong were Hodja Boyar's feelings, in fact, that one Friday evening after prayers he incautiously told worshipers at the Odemis mosque: "All the devout should attend the Democratic Party meeting which will be held day after tomorrow. Those who do not attend may be classed with the infidels...
After the wedding the two young officers, their wives and mothers, set off by mule caravan for Constantinople, this time to attend staff college. Shortly after their arrival war broke out in the Balkans, and Nuri went off to the front, but he and Jafar became convinced that advancement was being systematically denied them because they were Arabs. "If we are foreigners, then let's be foreigners," said Nuri. He took over leadership of a cell in the secret Covenant society plotting Arab independence from the decadent and dying Ottoman empire. All cell members wore hooded red gowns...
...women wish to study business, they cannot attend the Harvard Business School, they must enroll in the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration, begun originally by the Annex and now sponsored jointly by Radcliffe and the B-School. Still more perplexing is the situation of the students persuing the degree of Master of Arts in Teaching. They are in the Radcliffe Graduate School, not Harvard's, unlike the women studying for the degree of Master in Education...
...from Harvard rather than Radcliffe--although President Pusey currently countersigns every Annex degree. The secretary of the Radcliffe Graduate School reports that occasionally an applicant will ask if she can obtain a Harvard diploma, and that graduate students in applying for national scholarships are prone to say that they attend Harvard rather than Radcliffe...