Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peddled many a rumor of orgies in his modern villa in the Mazraa section of the city. Over their tea at the Patisserie Suisse, over cocktails at the seaside Normandie, Beirutis whispered that Dahish was getting into trouble with the Government. Lebanon's good, round President, Sheikh Bechara El Khoury, frowned on Dahish...
...Worried. El Khoury is a natural worrier. In the fall of 1944 he had plenty of troubles-his wife's illness, his scapegrace son's escapades, his efforts to get rid of the French (who had jailed him for opposing them...
...gravely protested, was it not internationally recognized that Tibet is a part of China? The map was hastily changed; the poker-faced expressions of the Tibetans, who had journeyed 21 days by foot, pony, train and plane from their mountain-rimmed domain, changed to amused indulgence. When Madame Karim el Sayid, a young and buxom Egyptian, opposed Jewish immigration to Palestine, the five delegates from Palestine's Hebrew University walked...
...industrially undeveloped, politically backward (3% vote) and poor (per capita imports amounted to $4.33 in 1938, compared with oil-rich Venezuela's $30.63). It was glad to get Shell's $30,000 yearly for exploration rights in one-third of the nation's territory-in El Oriente jungle, on the eastern slopes of the Andes, a region once claimed by neighboring Peru. Ten years ago, Shell tackled the job by airplane and muleback, spent an amount unofficially estimated at $100,000,000, blueprinted a $35,000,000 pipeline, built highways and a village (Shell Mera...
...Falla: El Amor Brujo (the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting, with Nan Merriman, mezzo-soprano; Victor, 6 sides; the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting, with Carol Brice, contralto; Columbia, 6 sides). Reiner's version of this Debussy-scented Andalusian suite, which includes the popular Fire Dance, is less vivid than Stokowski...