Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help, had shored up Lebanon and is now underwriting Jordan. This week the test of whether Arab nations can keep their independence-even such an impoverished sand kingdom as Jordan-is being put to the test. Less than three weeks after British troops left, the confident young King Hussein planned to take off for a three-week "convalescent leave" and vacation in Europe. The question was whether his nation would stay quiet in his absence, under tight police control inside and the counterbalancing of rival ambitions outside. The Middle East was showing no signs of coming to rest...
...Awarded to 1,054 members, including two heads of state-President Eisenhower and King Mohammed V of Morocco as well as to seven listed only as "X," whose names are kept in sealed envelopes against the future day when their services to France can be revealed...
...carat purey from the estate of Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, famed capital hostess whose first son was killed by an automobile, whose daughter died from an overdose of sleeping pills, whose husband, onetime Washington Post Owner Edward B. McLean, died in a mental institution. Some previous owners: King Louis XIV, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, English Banker Henry Thomas Hope, and Subaya, favorite of Turkish Sultan Abdul Hamid, who murdered...
...national holiday was declared to celebrate the adventurous King's escape from what he charged was an attempt to kidnap or kill him in a flight over Syria Monday. Hussein, who celebrates his 24th birthday Friday, emerged as a daring Moslem hero for defying the Syrian MIG fighters and making a successful getaway...
Some officials suggested President Nasser's United Arab Republic--of which Syria is a province--attempted to kidnap the pro-Western King and force him to abdicate in favor of a regime friendly to the U.A.R...