Word: hassan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the mosque still only half finished, the National Production Authority clamped controls on materials for religious structures. Washington's mosque was short 40.5 tons of steel for the roof and a 150-ft. minaret. NPA refused to allocate more steel for 1951's last quarter. So Hassan Hosny, Egyptian embassy third secretary and secretary general of the Mosque Foundation, appealed to the State Department...
...Hassan Abd el Rahim, 42, burly, fat-padded Egyptian army lieutenant, who refreshed himself mid-Channel with five cups of tea and coffee, two cheese sandwiches, a pear and a pound of honey. No. 2 in the race almost to the end, he sprinted the last few hundred yards, clambered ashore the winner in the record-breaking time of 10 hours 53 minutes.† "Allah, Allah, a record!" he shouted...
...Mara'i Hassan Hamad, 41, an Egyptian army warrant officer, who, like Winner Abd el Rahim, had faithfully observed five prayer periods a day, trained on a diet of sesame oil, sweets and nuts...