Word: ben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With pipes and drums, 5,000 Berber tribesmen, camped below the palace in the Moroccan city of Rabat, greeted the appearance of a wizened old man in a white gown whom the French a year ago made Sultan of Morocco. Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa was nervous. The last two times he had shown his face in public, he had narrowly escaped assassination by fanatic nationalist supporters of his exiled predecessor, Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef...
...were angry at Mendès' promise of autonomy within the French Union. They denounced Mendès-France as a "Judas Iscariot"; planeload after planeload of them went tearing off to Paris to protest his "sellout" to their powerful representatives in the National Assembly. Paris told Premier Ben Amar that Tunisian independence was at best a "stated principle," which could not possibly be implemented until "arrangements" have been made to secure the colons' special interests-investments, privileges, jobs...
...Ben Amar, a practical man, accepted the French restrictions without a murmur...
...when Premier Ben Amar submitted his cabinet list to the new French Resident General, Pierre Boyer de la Tour du Moulin, it was the Frenchman who would not accept. Only after Ben Amar dropped two out of six Neo-Destourians was his ten-man team approved. Every man on it is a moderate (what the French call "calm"). This week at a formal investiture, they kissed the right palm and left shoulder of the Bey of Tunis, received his "blessing of Allah...
...Child of the Century, by Ben Hecht. A disorganized, windy, often fascinating look in the mirror by a softie who always made like a toughie (TIME, June...