Word: dervish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burst apart; the British moved into Egypt proper, and a religious fakir, calling himself El Mahdi (The Messiah), took the Sudan. Famed General "Chinese" Gordon, an Englishman employed by the Egyptians, tried a holding operation in Khartoum, but died on the steps of his headquarters, a human pincushion for dervish spears...
...Sportspalast for the annual German jitterbug championship, watched husky Helga Haier, 21, and her real cool partner Dieter Heidemann, 20, stomp, slide and swivel their way to first place in a style that, by comparison, made many a U.S. practitioner of the art look like a whirling dervish with lumbago. ¶In Paris, two great American institutions-the quiz program and the striptease-were ingeniously fused. Every night, in a nightclub called L'Academic des Vins, a model named Mile. Genevieve appears, tastefully clad, on the stage while a quizmaster flings questions at the audience. Each customer giving...
...Rebecca West, the Atlantic: "[The Hiss trial] was yet another dervish trial . . . In they rush, and the examination of witnesses can hardly be carried on because of the commotion caused by the invaders, twirling and turning all over the courtroom, and the lawyers' speeches are not to be heard because of their holy bowlings . . . The mystic may be discomposed by the howling and gyrating of the dervishes [but] he leans on his understanding with God . . . To reach the state of intense perception which makes a mystic, a man must be unselfish but egotistical. He must be supremely interested...
...with his faints, his tears and wild-eyed dreams, is a whirling dervish with a college education and a first-rate mind...
Mohammed Mossadeq, with his faints, his tears and wild-eyed dreams, is a whirling dervish with a college education and a first-rate mind...