Word: bedouin
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...scholarly, fine-boned Arab of 62, who wears the blue robes of a Bedouin monarch and speaks in a high, thin voice, King Idris I led his Senussi tribesmen in two wars against the Italians, now uses a converted Italian barracks near Benghazi as his palace. He trusts the West, and privately refers to the seven-nation Arab League as "an alliance of weaknesses." But recognizing Libya's kinship with the rest of the Moslem world, he plans to join the Arab League. "If anybody ever succeeds in cementing this country together," says an English veteran of Libya...
Early in the summer of 1947, some bedouin goatherds came upon several manuscripts in a care near the Dead Sea. They had been preserved in leather wrappings, and were kept in jars. It was an ancient Hebrew custom to bury documents in this manner when they were threatened with destruction...
Emir Abdullah, meanwhile, worked hard to transform Jordan, an ungainly, rocky patch of land, into a kingdom. For two years he lived in a tent. On the tent site at Amman Abdullah later built his palace. He ruled as an absolute monarch, but the poorest Bedouin could come to plead with him at any time. He once spent a whole day personally tracking down a rascal who had made a poor woman pregnant...
...port. Across the desert he threaded 930 miles of highway. He operated 1,500 cars and trucks, built airfields, ran Tapline's own private airline and radio communication system. To get water, Hull's men dug 40 producing wells which now supply water to 100,000 Bedouin tribesmen, 150,000 camels and 300,000 sheep and goats. At the pipeline's six lonely pumping stations, he is building complete towns with movie theaters, mosques and athletic facilities for the use of American and Arab staffs that man the pumps...
Maureen O'Hara may be an expert on décolletage, but she is no great shakes when it comes to acting in Arab movies. This became evident approximately half way through "Bagdad, in which Miss O'Hara is cast as a Bedouin of some means who migrates from England in order to live with her father. When she is informed that Pa has been bumped off by a local band of rowdies known as the Black Robes, nothing will do but she must get an eye-for-an-eye and all that by eliminating the ringleader of the boys...