Word: glubbs
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...regards the new British-sponsored state with suspicion). Abdullah I made a polite speech from the throne, carefully avoiding most of the Middle East's hottest issues, whereupon the court and guests proceeded to Marka airfield to review Trans-Jordan's British-trained Arab Legion. Its leader, Glubb Pasha (occidental title: Brigadier John Bagot Glubb, D.S.O., O.B.E.) stood next to His Majesty on the sun-scathed reviewing stand, picturesquely martial in a spiked helmet, with a long sword by his side. After the two-hour parade, everybody had lunch (main course: 56 whole roast sheep), while Trans-Jordan...
...fairly strong military and economic rope. Trans-Jordan was to provide facilities for the training and movement of British troops, and her communications were to be developed with British money and in consultation with British technicians. Trans-Jordan's Arab Legion (whose Desert Patrol is known locally as "Glubb's Girls") would still be trained and commanded by Britain's 48-year-old Arabophile John Bagot Glubb. He is known...
...Major Glubb's Tasbih...
...TIME, Nov. 3, under World War,"D.S.O. to a Legend," article about Major John Bagot Glubb [Commander of Britain's Arab Legion in Trans-Jordan...
...Major Glubb's many years in the East seem to have given him more than Arabic nicknames. He seems to have acquired the Mohammedan practice of fingering the Tasbih. The Tasbih could be called the Mohammedan Rosary. Composed of 33, 66 or 99 beads, it is used by the faithful in the repetition of the 99 names which express the attributes of Allah. These beads are generally fingered during meditation and moments of stress...