Word: burnous
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...petroleum. What few American consumers realize is that an increasing amount of the fuel they use is not only shipped, refined and delivered but also pumped into their car by foreign producers. To paraphrase the old Texaco jingle, The man who wears the star is also wearing an Arab burnous...
...action and glory in Tunisia, had seen no finer staff officer than Major General Walter B. Smith (right), Eisenhower's chief of staff. Their recognition: induction in the famed 2nd Spahis as an honorary first class private. General de Goutel laid the colonial cavalry regiment's scarlet burnous on "Beedle" Smith's shoulders, pinned the outfit's medal badge on his O.D. blouse...
...large plot of ground provided gratis by a rich Tunisian Jew, and surrounded by gewgaws, food and drink stands. A couple of thousand found quarters with thrifty Tunisians, Moslems and Jews, who scraped and cooed to these profitable "infidels." The visiting "infidels" sharply eyed the resident "infidels," for white burnous-clad Mohammedans had cruelly murdered Christians and destroyed great Christian Carthage in 698 A.D. Nonetheless, the visitors, including 1,000 from the U. S., swarmed over the countryside to see the sights. Silently vexed were Moslems when the visitors trooped through nearby Qairw?n, a Moslem pilgrimage centre almost...
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