Word: beys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assassination at Sarajevo, then switched to the problems of peasant revolution for the May 2nd crowd. He told jokes in Italian about the Bulgarians, and chatted in English (with occasional Russian) about the Partisan War. An Eastern European whose father was born the peasant serf of a Turkish bey, he smiled a little when slipping in words like "hip" and "camp." He felt at home...
...Farouk increased his influence in the Middle East by founding the Arab League. Then his first marriage, to Queen Farida, who had borne him three daughters, broke up, and trusted Hassaneen Pasha died of a heart attack. Hassaneen was replaced by an unsavory crew ranging from Pulley Bey, a former Italian barber and electrician, to Kareem Tabet, a wily Lebanese newsman. Farouk was soon gambling away his nights at the card tables of Cairo's Royal Automobile Club or touring the Riviera circuit, where he rented 30-room hotel suites and sometimes dropped more than $100,000 a week...
...Some of the ballots read, "His Excellency Charles Helou," or "Charles Bey Helou," and so on. The writing on such ballots is in fact a code. If a Deputy promises his vote to a candidate for office but there is some doubt as to whether in the actual voting he will really come through, he is instructed to phrase the ballot in a certain way, known only to the candidate and himself. When the ballot is read aloud, it thus reveals the Deputy's identity. In this typically Lebanese manner, it is possible to maintain the convention...
...seems likely that Makarios will get some revisions of the constitution, which even the British concede is unwieldy and perhaps unfairly weighted with veto powers for the Turkish minority. But even a more workable constitution may not guarantee peace. Zekia Bey, a Turkish Cypriot on the Supreme Court, said sadly: "I don't think there can ever be any hope of coexistence between Greek and Turk here. It has now been established that to become a political leader in Cyprus you must have the right qualification-you must have killed someone. The greatest difficulty is that...
Square Triumph. Less than a week later, the army struck out again for Cairo, 150 miles away across the desert and up the Nile. When they met the forces of Murad Bey outside Cairo, the French were hungry and thirsty, many of them barefoot and weakened by dysentery. Nevertheless, the battle-hardened French veterans easily routed Murad Bey's Mameluke tribesmen. Formed in squares six ranks deep, the French infantry coolly cut down the wildly charging Mameluke cavalry, despite the heroics of individual Mameluke warriors whose scimitars sliced through the barrels of French rifles as if they were straws...