Word: feastings
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...daytime amusement mixing plaster with the palace workmen. When his gay, pretty bride stepped from her coach and gave him an airy kiss, the 15-year-old "booby" only shifted gawkily from foot to foot; after the nuptials, two days later, he seemed mainly interested in the huge wedding feast. "Don't overload your stomach tonight," warned the old King. "Why not?" replied the Dauphin. "I always sleep better after a good supper...
...benevolent turtle, were constantly caught by news cameras-at the Royal Enclosure at Ascot, on a fashionable beach at Cannes, at a lavish masquerade ball in Venice, or amidst panoplies of Oriental splendor as devoted followers balanced his weight in gifts of diamonds, gold or platinum on Moslem feast days. Readers of the sports page knew the Aga Khan as an ardent turfman whose stables had produced five Derby winners. (The day before his death, a thoroughbred named Damseesa, carrying his flashy red and green silks, romped home an easy 14 to 1 winner at Paris' Le Tremblay.) Gossipists...
...country poor in the bitter postwar days. The old men smoke potato leaves. Food is a crust smeared with tomato pulp or dipped in hot wine. They hang about for days at the edges of fields hoping for jobs. Their priest begs lentils from door to door. On the Feast of St. Francis, the townspeople leave a hoarded egg white and the thistly cardoon as an offering. As Novelist Rimanelli spells it out, America with its fabulous giobbe (jobs) offers the one hope of earthly release from a doom of sweat, petty theft, envy, slander. For peasant poverty here...
...protecting his family were repealed (one cousin was promptly sent to jail for pushing narcotics). Last week a two-line communique from government headquarters announced that May 15 was no longer to be considered a public holiday. Reduced to accepting the hand kisses of his dependent relatives on his feast day, Tunisia's Bey had little to look forward to but extinction. By the time May 15 rolls around again. Tunisia will probably have declared itself a republic...
What kept the wolves from gratifying their appetites was the fear that their feast might be disputed, and that in the fight for the spoils someone else might run off with the best chunks. At a certain point last week. Jordan's weakness became its strength: neighbors who coveted it found common cause in recognizing that an artificial nation was better than chaos. But above all. what saved the Kingdom of Jordan was the courage of the young King, an often irresolute monarch who at this crucial moment stood firm...