Word: habib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Star of the East (100 carats). Though Winston laughed at the legend that the Hope diamond had brought only trouble or tragedy to its owners and wearers, he soon had his pressagents grinding out new embellishments of the tale (samples: "Marie Antoinette, who wore it, was beheaded . . . Solomon Habib, Oriental diamond merchant who handled the gem, has been ill for 40 years"). Winston planned to send the collection on a nationwide tour of museums and leading jewelry stores, then sell...
...Krim got a hero's welcome in Cairo, where Farouk also protects the white-bearded ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini, and exiled Nationalist Leader Habib Bourgiba of Tunisia. But there was consternation in Paris. The Quai d'Orsay called El-Krim's action "contrary to the traditions of honor that are those of Moroccans of his rank...
Philosophized Lebanon's husky, furrow-browed Charles Habib Malik (Ph.D., Harvard) : "As Aristotle said ... a horse runs -it does not converse. A house does not make love-it is for living in." Malik's question: What is U.N. good...
Lebanese President Bechara El Khoury and Premier Riad Solh were still detained by the French. All titles and portfolios of the rump administration were held by Habib Abou Chala, shrewd, cautious Beirut lawyer, who had been Solh's Vice Premier, and fiercely mustachioed Emir Mejid Arslan, Defense Minister. Indolent, fun-loving Arslan is the reigning prince of the battlewise mountaineer Druses, who gave French forces a mauling in 1927, asked nothing better than another chance to fight the hated Faranji...