Word: eastern
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...Cross during World War I and the aftermath, came home in 1922 with such interest in foreign problems that he took the stiff foreign service exams. Passed and appointed, he performed energetically in junior jobs from Dublin to Moscow, brilliantly in Washington as head of the Office of Near Eastern and African Affairs (1945-48), and as Ambassador to Iraq (1943-45), Ambassador to India (1948-51) and Ambassador to Iran...
Poor by Western standards, Syria is moderately prosperous as Middle Eastern nations go. Though she has no oilfields of her own, nearly a seventh of her national budget last year came from transit fees paid by Tapline and Iraq Petroleum Co. pipelines across it. (Because the Syrian army sabotaged the I.P.C. pipeline at the time of the Suez invasion, oil is flowing through it at only 40% of its pre-Suez rate.) For all her chronic political chaos, Syria has made notable economic progress since World War II. Irrigation schemes, mostly private, have more than doubled wheat production since...
...Senate's modern 18-day morality play began, Du Mont Broadcasting Corp. has been bombarded with 10,000 such letters and thousands of phone calls. Three people twitted Du Mont because Liberace had been shoved aside by Johnny Dio and Jimmy Hoffa; but in most bars across the Eastern Seaboard, tipplers clamored for the racket-busters over baseball. Even though she was seated a few yards behind the witness chair in the packed Senate caucus room, pert, brunette Ethel Kennedy, wife of Bob, was glued to a portable monitor set. "You can check out the witnesses so much better...
...between the Jews of Israel and Jews in other countries before it is too late and both die spiritually. Failure of this partnership would be calamitous for Israel and catastrophic for the Jews of the Diaspora. "Israel must counteract by its existence the silent process of assimilation. What made Eastern Jewry so powerful and creative was not its theoretical adherence to Jewish religion and Jewish culture but the fact that it had implemented the Talmud in its daily life. Such reality of ideas can now be provided to Diaspora Jewry only by Israel. Rabbis may preach the theory...
...horrified by his tribe's backwardness, illiteracy and impractical preoccupation with poetry; civilization's missionaries depart, leaving behind two artificially inseminated ewes and predicting bigger and better herds, which the Falqani do not want. Throughout his country, Ghazan seems to see only a bizarre blend of ancient Eastern evils and too-hasty Westernization-hunger and corruption, opium smokers in grey flannel suits, profiteering officials who "displayed the refrigerator in their drawing room like a Chinese lacquer cabinet...