Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Religion!" The answer, audible from the Baltic to the South China Sea, was the machine-gun fire of Communist T-54 tanks. Then, out of a deep night along the Israel-Egypt border, there sprang forth two spearheads of a regular Israeli army advance, lunging 75 miles into Egyptian territory in the general direction of the Suez Canal. Unknown was whether Israel was launching an unusually deep retaliatory raid, or whether this was the beginning of the painful tidings that the President and Secretary of State had long feared and had long striven to prevent: an Israeli preventive...
...reporting for induction, of roaring dispatch riders, of rolling convoys of armored vehicles. Israel was declaring "partial mobilization," said Premier David Ben-Gurion, "to safeguard the security of Israel's borders." The armies of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia stood bound by treaty to serve together under overall Egyptian command in the event of an Israeli...
Eban said that his country's military aim was to forestall Egyptian threats to "grind Israel into the dust." The attack, Eban said, "was to eliminate the bases from which armed fedayeen units invade Israel for the purpose of murder, sabotage, and disruption of peaceful life...
...General Assembly session, convened late yesterday afternoon, was considering a motion by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles calling for the cessation of military activities along the war-torn Israeli-Egyptian border...
Meanwhile, the Associated Press reported Israeli claims that the whole Sinai Peninsula--150 miles wide at the Mediteranean end and 230 miles deep--had fallen to a successful Israeli pincer movement. The 20,000-man Egyptian force guarding the area was reported in full retreat toward the Suez Canal, where landings by British and French paratroops were expected momentarily...