Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today the world is awash in oil. Prices have been falling, and OPEC ministers meeting in Geneva last week refused to accede to Iran's demands for price increases. Aramco now buys its oil from the Saudis and does little more than manage the oilfields for the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. U.S. oil consumption has not been as ravenous as it once was, dampened by three years of recession, a genuine concern for conservation and an ever larger fleet of fuel-efficient cars...
...more than $1 billion worth of arms were sold to South Africa. France was the largest supplier, followed by the U.K., the U.S. and West Germany. Israel's total sales during that period included six patrol boats and the surface-to-surface missiles to arm the boats. The Kingdom of Jordan, on the other hand, sold South Africa 41 Centurion battle tanks and a total of 717 missiles, as well as jeeps, launchers and radar equipment. The Soviet Bloc nations also have sold and sell arms to South Africa, though not openly, CBS has filmed the unloading of such arms...
...While living in London, our family did "go down to Kew in lilac time" on a lovely Sunday afternoon. That's when our Kensington flat was broken into for the third time. We still cannot forget that our favorite toys and personal belongings are scattered all over The Kingdom...
According to the legend, two brothers. Sharyar and Shah Zaman, who reign over adjoining kingdoms, discover their wives infidelity and vow that, in retaliation, each will rape a virgin every night and have her killed in the morning. Sharyar's kingdom soon deteriorates as parents flee the country with their daughters. At last, Scheherazade, a local visor's eldest daughter, announces to her father that she has a plan to end the King's murders and he, therefore, must present her to him that night as the virgin...
Something in Author Paul Theroux must have died if he has tired of London [Oct. 31]. I hope no one is deterred from visiting Great Britain because of the negative feelings Theroux reveals in his new book The Kingdom by the Sea. Tourists would miss the chance to know some of the finest people anywhere...