Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cairo, after a six-weeks survey of 17 European countries, Herbert Hoover went to a microphone to broadcast to his fellow countrymen...
...appalling responsibilities of victory had come to be represented by one word. "Bread," said Herbert Hoover in Cairo last week, "has a reality as the symbol of life as never before in history. ... To reduce the bread ration has become a symbol of calamity...
...Nile arose at dawn, took several deep breaths, and went picnicking. It was the Shamm en-Nesim, the one common holiday for all Egyptians-Moslem, Christian and Jew. Once a Coptic feast day, the Shamm en-Nesim means literally "the smell of the West Wind." Irreverent Americans in Cairo call it "sniff-the-breeze day." Egyptians believe that a lungful of the departing spring air will ward off summer languor-provided the sniffer manages to stay awake all day on Shamm en-Nesim...
Like most Soviet diplomats, Ambassador Novikov, 43, was little known outside the marsupial pouch of the Kremlin. He had first emerged in 1943, as minister to Egypt. While in Cairo he negotiated Soviet recognition of new regimes in Syria and Lebanon after junketing incognito through the Levant. An occasional concertgoer with his handsome wife, Lydia Ivanovna, he has an embassy reputation as an expert at chess...
Fortnight ago Taylor dusted off the Met's Egyptian collection (second only to Cairo's), rearranged it in 15 galleries and a great hall to show, among other things, that the ancient Egyptians rolled their equivalent of dice, drank beer, plucked their eyebrows and went in for pedicures. The New York World-Telegram's Art Critic Emily Genauer tartly accused the Met of showing more interest in archaeology than...