Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will die the four 65-ft. guardian statues of Ramses II, who built the temple in his honor around 1250 B.C. On one of these seated colossi appears what may be the first "Kilroy was here" message in military history. About 600 B.C., two Greek mercenaries serving in the Egyptian army arrived at the temple and scratched on Ramses' leg an account of their travels upriver as "companions of Psammetichus." Like any other G.I.s, they signed their names as well: for the record, they were Archon and Pelekos...
They did just that last year when, tired of arguing with Egypt over a new pact to revise the old Anglo-Egyptian Nile treaty of 1929, Sudanese officials simply began diverting Nile water into their own irrigation system eleven crucial days before the date stipulated for such annual action. As a result, the Egyptian rice crop was damaged; Cairo protested hotly, and the Egyptian press cried that the Sudan was guilty of all kinds of crimes, including genocide...
...advises him: "Your hopes are vain, Professor Shapley!") The magazine's lead article is by Britain's spry old Philosopher-Mathematician Bertrand Russell, 87, who asks: "Has religion made a useful contribution to civilization?" His answer: No, except for helping to establish the calendar and inducing the "Egyptian priests to prepare such careful chronology of eclipses that in time they could predict them...
...attract outside help in salvaging and preserving works in the area, the Egyptian government has offered liberal terms, even allowing the removal of several complete temples for reconstruction elsewhere...
...harsh heat of Cairo International Airport last year, a Chinese-American traveler idly watched a scrawny Egyptian newsboy. The boy got nowhere with his tabloid sheet. But when Richard C. Kao of Los Angeles saw the boy snatch a piece of bread from a restaurant table, Kao decided that he wanted a newspaper. He offered a ?5 note, his smallest bill. The boy quickly fetched the change. Counting it, Kao discovered that he had got his paper free. It was simple enough, the boy explained. The slender man "with the kind face" had only a ?5 note; he must...