Word: hadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since Syria united with Egypt 21 months ago, the Syrian presidential palace in Damascus has been little more than a place where local politicians sip coffee while carrying out the long-distance orders of others. But last week the slouching sentries were snapping as never before. Egypt's...
Almost from the start, the Syrians had had second thoughts about their impulsive merger. The job of whipping Syria into line was given to Interior Minister Abdel Hamid Serraj a ruthless local strongman who had wholeheartedly committed himself to Nasser. Serraj clapped hundreds of Communists into jail, tortured "recantations" out...
Last week Amer turned his attention to the businessmen, assuring them too that Cairo had no intention of fusing Syria's currency with Egypt's softer one. Next day Amer appealed to the peasants. "Nasser," he said, as he doled out 200 land deeds under Syria's...
But in spite of all his efforts, one stubborn economic fact remained: two years of drought had turned Syria from a land that once exported 159 million Syrian pounds worth of grain a year to one that must now import 50 million pounds worth. Some Syrians, completely forgetting that Egypt...
Last week the Soviet press launched a campaign against tipping in restaurants. "Restaurant employees," said the magazine Literature and Life, "must be made to realize that they forfeit their human dignity by accepting tips, which are an insult to those who give and those who take." Asked whether there was...