Word: djellaba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where Sultan ben Youssef is now regally established, awaiting his return to the throne. The old pasha was kept waiting one hour. Then, after photographers and reporters had been posted at a big window to record the moment of high triumph, the door was flung wide. Shrouded in white djellaba and hood, El Glaoui shucked off his pointed slippers and advanced. The imperial chamberlain put a firm hand on El Glaoui's neck, sent him to the floor. The once-powerful pasha, who boasted that his 300,000 musket-toting Berber tribesmen made "cowards tremble and gave hope...
...dismount. A tough professional soldier, Calais-born Robert King, who is physical training instructor of the Sultan's guards, leaped on the running board of the Ford, grabbed ben Abdallah by the neck and wrestled him from the car. Ben Abdallah pulled a butcher knife from his djellaba and sliced King's shoulder, while the driverless roadster plowed on into the Sultan's horse, breaking one of its legs (the animal was later destroyed). Sten gunners of the imperial guard fired a burst at ben Abdallah; he quivered, then died. Sultan Arafa, unhurt, turned to his aides...
...them through Italy, France and Germany. After the war, Guillaume, as military attaché in Moscow, took a close look at Russian might, then became French commander in Germany. He has the dash that the French like in their generals: fellow officers remember him, wrapped in his Moroccan djellaba, reciting Dante in Rome, singing a song of Schubert's as he crossed the Rhine...