Word: hakim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mines. On the crowded courtroom benches the red tarbooshes bobbed up & down. The whispers of the perfumed mascaraed women rose to an excited buzz. Then the two handcuffed prisoners were ushered in-short, stocky, red-faced Eliahu Bet Tsouri, his arms defiantly akimbo; tall, pale, black-mustached Eliahu Hakim, his slender fingers tightly twisted round the iron-spiked bars of the dock...
...prisoners had refused to testify in any language but Hebrew. Because they distrusted the court interpreter, they later switched to English. Impatiently they admitted their acts. As Sternists and "sons of Palestine," they had come to Cairo for the express purpose of killing Moyne, they said. Tsouri and Hakim had leaped on the running board of Lord Moyne's car. Hakim had shot the Minister, Tsouri had stabbed his chauffeur to death. Then the prisoners began to expound the Stern credo of violence. They justified the assassination as an act of war against a foreign invader (Britain). Austere Mahmoud...
...seventh day Hakim and Tsouri were sentenced to die by hanging. Egyptian courts can sentence, but cannot directly order death. So the judges announced that the documents in the case would be sent to the Grand Mufti of Egypt, who has power to order death "in the Name of God." Four days later he issued the order...
...Happy Days (by Claude-André Puget, produced by Raphael & Robert Hakim). This fragile study of French adolescence was popular in Paris before the city grew grey under Adolf Hitler. Adapter Zoë Akins has warily shifted the story to an island on the St. Lawrence River, but it seems to take place on a river, and in a time, of memory...