Word: egyptianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five hours the signing of the year's most uncommunicative communiqué ("a useful exchange of opinions"). No sooner had Khrushchev asserted a pious hope that for the Algerian problem France would "find an appropriate solution in the spirit of our epoch" than he lurched up to the Egyptian ambassador at the huge Kremlin reception that followed, and lifted his glass in a toast "to the Arabs and all people struggling for national independence...
...Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold returned to his steel-and-glass international enclave on Manhattan Island last week. He came back from his mission to the Middle East reflecting, with the practiced restraint of a Swedish diplomat, a quiet satisfaction in having stopped the fighting on the Israeli-Egyptian border, but qualifying his guarded optimism for the future with a polite cautionary warning to nations outside the area...
...Egyptian forces are "working day and night seven days a week" learning to use new Stalin tanks, MIG fighters and IL-28 jet bombers, Amer announced last week. But Western military observers think that many months must pass before the Egyptians can master their new weapons...
...romantic pull of the minarets, the call of the muezzin, and the wheeling of the slender-winged kites in Cairo's twilight sky. He falls recklessly in love with a raven-haired Coptic 16-year-old named Aziza. Their furtive courtship gives Author Schiemer a chance to explore Egyptian domestic customs from cuisine to boudoir. One custom: the exhibiting of the wedding-night bedsheet to the bridegroom's parents as proof of the bride's virginity...
...lead Major Khaled and a few other hothead officers to try an overnight coup. Dirk is jailed briefly and ordered to leave the country. When Aziza and clan hear of his disgrace, he gets an even quicker brushoff. As Aziza screams her parting words, they seem almost like an Egyptian anathema on all foreigners: "Son of a dog! I'll find an Egyptian ten times better than...