Word: jebel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slim 12 then, a desert torch singer fresh from Syria's Jebel Druse country. But Ama's family frowned on such shamelessness ; they bustled her into marriage with Cousin Emir Hassan, chief of the Druses...
From Oran's harbor, below the frowning heights of Algeria's Jebel Murjajo, Britain got her full answer. It came with fearful finality. The question that Britain had faced was: What if France should lose? From some of France's politicians-well-intentioned poltroons, strong-minded pro-Nazis and plain defeatists-already had come the civilian's answer: ignominious surrender...
...name is corrupted from Jebel Tarig (Mountain of Tarig), which the Moors called it in honor of their chieftain who seized it from the Visigoths...