Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...request of their parents, the ashes of Lieut. Harwood Sharp of El Cerrito, Calif, and Radioman James Langiotti of Orlando, Fla., who were captured and executed by the Japanese after they had fought together as a bomber team through seven months of the Pacific war, were scattered over the waters five miles east of Hawaii's Diamond Head...
...Bronx Cheer. Next day in Palestine a dozen engagements between Jews and Arabs were fought. At El Kabri on the north coastal plain 250 Arabs ambushed a Jewish convoy, killed over 40. In another engagement a mile and a half from Bethlehem, 3,000 Arabs attacked another convoy, killed a score of Jews in a 30-hour battle. Both attacks occurred in areas which would have gone to the Arabs under the partition plan. The ambushed Jewish convoys had been carrying badly-needed supplies to isolated Zionist communities...
...pressagent told the story, roly-poly Don Vicente Miranda, onetime waiter who now owns Mexico's swankest nightclub, El Patio, lay abed one morning last week and pondered on the world's sad state. Everybody, he decided, was tense and nervous. Then he bounded out of bed with a plan. He would soothe the world with mole, the marvelous Mexican sauce based on chocolate and chile...
...asked Bill to name the members of the family; living and dead. Billy did not miss one. Pat began to recognize the "Choctaw drawl." Why had he hidden out all these years? "Just a quirk," said Billy. What about the man in Mexico? "I left that raincoat in an El Paso restaurant in 1908," Billy explained...
While the Arab Leaguers waited in Riyadh, the late Yahya's eldest son Prince Seif el Islam Ahmed captured the Yemenite capital of Sana. Ahmed el Wazir, who had proclaimed himself Imam after Yahya's death,, fled. Prince Ahmed, who had been his father's chosen heir all along, at last became Imam...