Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abdullah's country was scarcely bigger than Indiana, a black-tent kingdom populated by nomadic Bedouins. But the Arab Legion, which the British created and supported for him, made Abdullah a power among the ill-organized Arab armies of the Middle East. Abdullah was a strong-minded aristocrat who used to tell his Cabinets: "Do what I say, or I'll get another government in the morning." He dreamed of an Arab "Greater Syria," a state that would include Trans-Jordan, Syria, Palestine and Lebanon...
...inventories and more defense equipment. By ECE's rough comparison, Italy. Austria, The Netherlands and West Germany put only 10-15% of their income into expanding the economy. France spent only 8% of its income for new production, and at the bottom of the list is the United Kingdom, which invests only 6% of its income...
Keys to the Kingdom. In Enfield, England, Mrs. Horace Westgarth was granted a divorce after she testified that when she told her husband that she was about to leave him, he gravely shook her hand, said that he hoped she would be happy wherever she was going, asked her to leave him the keys to the house...
...keep his independence amidst the violent passions he had fostered in Jordan's streets, young Hussein will need all the help he can get. The ex-Palestinians who form two-thirds of his kingdom look to Egypt's arms and Saudi Arabia's gold to help drive the Israelis from their old homes. On the other side stands Iraq, Egypt's No. 1 rival in the Arab world. Iraq has the money ($200 million a year in oil royalties), plus the common Hashemite hatred that unites its King with Jordan's against the rival Saudi...
...such conditions, as the President stated them, sound more like the rules of governing a kingdom or a corporation. They are not the rules for governing a democracy ... I couldn't help thinking of the little rhyme, 'This wouldn't be sinister, if we had a Prime Minister...