Word: bikbashi
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...Under Nasser, Sadat rose from director of army public relations to editor of the semiofficial Cairo newspaper al Gumhouriya to president of the National Assembly. Nasser valued his loyalty but sometimes called him the Bikbashi Sah (Colonel Yes-Yes) because of his excessive docility. "If he would only vary the way in which he agreed," Nasser was known to quip, "I would feel a lot better." But in the year before his own death, Nasser made Sadat his Vice President...
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