Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Malay, Turkish and Urdu?and Arabic, of course, the mother tongue of the Prophet Muhammad and language of Islam's holy book, the Koran. Islam is the world's youngest universal faith, and the second largest, with 750 million adherents, to about 985 million for Christianity. Across the eastern hemisphere, but primarily in that strategic crescent that straddles the crossroads of three continents, Muslims are rediscovering their spiritual roots and reasserting the political power of the Islamic way of life. Repelled by the bitter fruits of modernization and fired by a zealous pride in its ancient heritage, the umma (world...
...afternoon of Oct. 6, 1973, the cry of "Allahu Akbar!" (God is great) rose from the throats of Egyptian soldiers as they stormed across the Suez Canal and overran the lightly manned Israeli strongpoints of the Bar Lev Line. Later the first Egyptian flag raised on the eastern bank of the canal was presented to the Grand Sheik of Cairo's Al Azhar Mosque...
...This game was pretty important even though it wasn't a league match," Clifford said. "We've really got to win the Eastern League for people in New England to believe we're a good team...
...sure, the phrase conveys the destruction that the Harvard lights have destruction that the Harvard lights have wreaked on Eastern rowing by winning three straight sprint titles, although somehow Belushi is not the right symbol for a sleek, delicate racing shell knifing through the water...
Yesterday's was the first disappointment in the Intercosmos space program, in which the Soviet Union trains Eastern Bloc cosmonauts. It dampened in the Soviet Union yesterday's celebrations of the eighteenth anniversary of the first manned space flight--that of a Russian...