Word: hegira
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were welcome indeed, particularly since each stop, each spectacle, was beamed in living color back to [U.S.] living rooms...[H]ome was never like this, and the President's aides were convinced that the accolades abroad would strengthen Nixon's hand in his battle to stave off impeachment. The hegira to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Israel and Jordan had, of course, far broader purposes. It constituted not only what some Nixon critics scorned as "impeachment diplomacy" but also sound foreign policy. His trip, said Nixon, was "another journey for peace," like his earlier trips to Moscow and Peking...[After...
...stunning hegira unfolded was high drama in itself. Around nightfall last Tuesday, a dusty convoy of military Land Rovers bounced over an unfenced sector of Jordan's border escorting Mercedes-borne worthies who turned out to be the presidential kinsmen. Exhausted and parched, the travelers had made a 14-hour desert trek to evade detection. Water was their first request. "They drank tens of bottles," related a high Jordanian security official. Though the inadequately provisioned party had seemingly departed on the run, the journey was not quite spontaneous. The Jordanian official said Hussein Kamel had visited Amman 10 days earlier...
...Tiger, Horse and so on. One of the longest counts is Judaism's reckoning of time from the creation of the world, by which the year 2000 will begin during 5760. For the world's Muslims, it will be the year 1420, counted from the Prophet Muhammad's Hegira (migration) to Medina...