Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delivered his inaugural address to half a million screaming schoolchildren. "O youth," he shouted, "the United Arab Republic has come into being." The merger of Egypt and Syria, he said, now becomes "the basis of Arab union." "Mabrouk Gamal-Congratulations, Gamal," shrieked the schoolkids. Rockets burst overhead, parachuting small Egyptian and Syrian flags down on their heads. Egypt's top singer, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, led them in chanting the newly composed anthem of the Arab union: "O Allah, We Won by Your Will...
...chief of state. By this count Nasser won 99.994% of the vote. It was even better than the 99.784% he racked up running for President of merely Egypt in 1956. As the Syrian Cabinet met under old President Shukri el Kuwatly to dissolve itself, Nasser raised his old Egyptian army comrade Abdel Hakim Amer to field marshal and appointed him commander of the republic's armed forces...
Gamal Abdel Nasser is not the first Egyptian to covet the Sudan. The Pharaohs, the Caesars, the Turks-all who held power in Egypt-cast envious eyes to the south on the "Land of the Blacks," which controls the upper waters of the Nile. In 1951 King Farouk presumptuously proclaimed himself "King of Egypt and the Sudan"; the Sudanese ignored him. During the Sudan's first parliamentary elections in 1953, the Egyptian army officers who overthrew Farouk dispatched Major Salah Salem to dance with the natives in his undershorts and ladle out a reported $5,000,000 trying...
...Faced Beasts. To bring her thesis into focus, Dorothy Norman assembled photographs of more than 100 art objects -the Assyrian Gilgamesh strangling a lion in an 8th century B.C. bas-relief, an Egyptian sculpture of the god Horus with lion-hunting gear, Heracles struggling barehanded with the Nemean Lion, as shown on a 5th century B.C. Greek vase, the herdsman subduing the ox in the Zen Buddhist Ox-Herding Pictures, a Russian icon showing St. George and the dragon. Oldest examples of her theme are drawings from the Lascaux Cave in France, done more than 30,000 years...
...Already Nasser's house-cleaning was under way. Syria's Communist Party Chief Khaled Bakdash took one look at the proposed constitution and left by plane with his family for Moscow. Significantly, Moscow, which has clarioned all available news of its Egyptian and Syrian friends for months, has had nothing to say about the Egypt-Syria merger...