Word: bedouin
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Problems. No one knew better than the three men how great were the obstacles confronting any architects of Arab unity: the dynastic rivalries of the Middle East, its feudal economies, the age-old jealousy between the men of the desert (Bedouin) and of the city (effendi). And there is the ever-present prickly problem of the Jewish and Christian minorities...
Farewell to Arms. Bedouin tribesmen, darting out of the desert, pawed over the battlefields, scampered off with bulging sacks. Among the living wreckage were those who, hopelessly cut off from supplies and reinforcements, disheartened, parched with thirst, had chosen to give up. Among these were sullen pilots of the Luftwaffe who had been flying on the Russian front only a few days before, Italians carrying knapsacks and suitcases, glad that the fighting was over. The half dead and the wounded the British loaded into trucks and carted back to the suddenly overwhelmed hospitals of Cairo...
Through this dusty plot shuffles blue-eyed Gene Tierney, 21, cast as a sort of desert branch manager of a Bedouin A. & P. Co. chain. Supposedly a half-caste daughter of an Arab trader, she manages to remain as dead-pan as all good Arabs are supposed to be. Of course she turns out to be Miss Graham Fletcher, a British operative...
...ways satisfied by Lawrence, who had plenty of gold and rifles and whose job was to organize raids. Major Glubb had no money to spend and no rifles; his chief job was to stop raids. Typical of his peacemaking strategy was his handling during the 1937 trouble of Bedouin chiefs, who loved to cut telephone wires. Major Glubb installed telephones in the chiefs' tents; if they cut the wires they cut themselves...
...skirted for a flank attack. Instead of sitting in defense, the Legion's armored cars attacked almost before Glubb came in on the flanks. The Vichy forces fled, leaving six armored cars, two trucks, 30 dead, five officers, 80 prisoners. Glubb's losses: one dead, one wounded Bedouin...