Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More Arab than the Arabs, Glubb Pasha loved to recite Arab classics, finger Moslem prayer beads (though himself an Anglican), and walk hand in hand in Eastern fashion with Abdullah in the King's garden. During interminable parleys with desert sheiks, he would pick imaginary lice from his burnoose to make his guests feel at home. Called Abu Huneik (Father of the Little Jaw) because of a bullet wound incurred on the Western front in World War I, he molded his loyal tribesmen into a hard-disciplined force of 20,000 men that helped to save Iraq from...
...Rice-Sprout Song. India contributed Amrita and Nectar in a Sieve, the latter by the author of the latest Indian entry, Some Inner Fury. The bulk of these novels pursue one theme-the disruptive impact of Western manners, morals and ideas on the semifeudal, arch-familistic patterns of Eastern life. Kipling said "never the twain shall meet"; the novelists of the East seem to be ruefully saying "never the twain shall part," and rather regretting that East and West met headon...
Pete Morrison entered the finals of the Eastern Wrestling Tournament in the unlimited class Saturday in Bethlehem, Pa. The Crimson team, placing eighth of 18 colleges, ranked a head of all the Ivy League and Army. Pittsburgh won, with 73 points...
...Crimson wrestling team will participate in the fifty-second annual Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Tournament today at Lehigh University...
...Arnold fears that Mr. Pusey's policy wil lead to the "sacrificing of Veritas on the altar of sectarianism." But has he not been told that the present Divinity Faculty is made up of representatives from at least eight Protestant denominations, as well as from Eastern Orthodoxy and Judaism? Is this what Arnold means by "sectarianism"? Certainly, no Divinity faculty in Harvard's past ever has had such breadth...