Word: desert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Egypt. Last November, Dr. Walter Bryan Emery, British archeologist in the service of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, climbed a desert bluff at Sakkara within sight of the pyramids of Giza. Below lay the fertile checkerboard fields of the flat Nile valley. A few miles away peasants grazed their goats among the jumbled ruins of Memphis, first capital of Egypt...
...tiresome tranquillity of middle-class life by marrying (1911) a rich Basque count much older than herself. Patient Pierre d'Andurain paced her docilely as she darted through Spain, Morocco, Algeria and South America. In 1923, the pair settled in Palmyra, Syria, where Queen Zenobia once ruled the desert caravan routes. There the count owned the Hotel Queen Zenobia, a mud-walled but lavishly furnished caravansary, catering to visiting oilmen, desert chieftains and casual Syrian commercial travelers. Within a few years Marga had turned this oasis into a haven of intrigue and flirtation. Emir Fawaz...
Creech Jones's second talk was with Lieut. General Sir Alan Cunningham, Palestine High Commissioner, who came to obtain permission for Britain's Palestine garrison (reinforced last week by hundreds of tanned desert veterans from Egypt) to launch an all-out offensive against Jewish extremists...
...this minute land that many people today propose to further divide. Moreover, all the surrounding countries are almost completely Arab states. Large numbers of these Arabs have migrated into Palestine in order to take advantage of the facilities for business, sanitation, medical care, education, and agriculture of previously desert land which the Zionists have made possible. The large number of Arabs who risk the penalty of breaking the band on trade with the Jews is further indication that they do not object to their presence...
...eyeless screen before his countenance, and the knowledge that he was not only doomed to death and suffering, but shut out forever from the touch of his fellowmen, filled the lads' bosoms with dismay; and at every step that brought him nearer, their courage and strength seemed to desert them...