Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year, and the wind whines down the sharp valleys. The Kurds are men to match their forbidding mountains. The sight of a Kurdish horseman plunging down the side of a hill and breaking out on to the valley floor to gallop in a rising cloud of dust is unforgettable. Stop a car along one of the lonely, untraveled roads of Kurdistan, and you're almost sure to attract such a visitor. He comes thundering down on you as though he were leading a cavalry charge. A tasseled turban flies above his fierce, lean face, and the wind turns...
...Russian Revolution ended the trade in pilgrims, property and Orthodox propaganda. For 24 years, dust thickened on the icons in the Russian churches in Palestine. Then in 1941, the Politburo ordered the churches reopened and dusted off the old czarist scheme. All Orthodox prelates in the Middle East were invited on a junket to Moscow to view the installation of Patriarch Alexei, hero of Leningrad...
...Egyptian troops were badly equipped, badly trained and badly led; but the defeat was taken as proof that Egypt's corrupt ruling class had emasculated the country. Egyptian officers, recalls Mohammed Naguib, "were filled with shame . . . We were bitter that our country should be kicked into the dust of the road." In 1950, the Palestine arms scandal broke, and the country learned that swindlers had piled up a fortune of $500,000 by selling the army dud ammunition which exploded prematurely, killing dozens of front-line soldiers. Calling themselves the "Free Officers," a group of young Palestine veterans joined...
...seed furled, The stirred dust...
...from the gravity and human sympathy with which it is written. Like many another modern novel, it reads like an atheist's funeral march-in which the composer (to say nothing of the corpse) is numbly resigned to the belief that man begins in dreams and ends in dust...