Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early this winter we moved Stoyan one step nearer his goal, sent him to Cairo as a correspondent accredited to the Mediterranean theater. As soon as he reached Egypt he began practicing parachute jumps, to be ready at a moment's notice to be dropped on his native land. In one of these jumps he fractured his left foot, and for a while he was heartbroken at the thought that the accident might cost him the assignment in the Balkans...
...Your Divisional Commander Kreipe was captured a short time ago by a British raiding force under our command. By the time you read this he and we will be on our way to Cairo...
Emperor Haile Selassie rocked the Coptic Christian Church to its 1800-year-old foundations. To Cairo and the Coptic pope, Patriarch Markarius III, the gentle Negus sent a rough message: the next Abuna, or archbishop, of Ethiopia must be an Ethiopian, not an Egyptian...
Ever since St. Athanasius consecrated Frumentius as the first Bishop of Ethiopia (340 A.D.), Egyptians have held top place in Ethiopia's hierarchy. The present Abuna is bearded, scholarly Cyril, who came from Cairo's St. Anthony Monastery. He crowned Haile Selassie in 1928, has spiritual rule over 4,000,000 Ethiopian Copts. At royal worship in Addis Ababa's octagonal Cathedral of St. George, the Emperor kisses the Egyptian's silk-draped silver cross. But the Abuna continually vexes the King of Kings and the proud Ethiopian court: he offends the country's growing...
...traveler, recently arrived in Cairo from Bulgaria, reported that country a-seethe with discontent. Said he: "If the Russians come the Bulgarian people will meet them with flowers from the men and kisses from the women. But until the Red Army is actually there the Bulgarian pro-German Government will choke any Soviet sentiment...