Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only killings were by Arab street mobs, or by Arab assassins. Not ashamed of sending British troops into Jordan, Macmillan was prepared to discuss the contribution to Middle Eastern instability of the ugly sort of Pan-Arabism represented by the Cairo hero who gets his picture taken smiling at King Saud's side while stirring plots to have him murdered...
...Hussein, the fearless young Hashemite monarch who had expelled the British from his country in 1957, but turned openly against Nasser when the Egyptian tried to drive him off his throne. "Hussein," said Nasser, "deviated and disavowed and deceived the people, and followed in the footsteps of his grandfather King Abdullah by inviting the British to occupy his country. Brothers, today there is treason, and another occupation, but it will end. The Arab homeland and people will eliminate the imperialist collaborators. Hussein is exactly like his grandfather Abdullah...
...unsuspecting young King and his uncle, Crown Prince Abdul Illah, 46, were getting ready to fly to Istanbul for an emergency meeting of the Moslem members of the Baghdad Pact. Seeing the gathering crowd, they went outside the palace. According to the rebels, the palace guard fired into the crowd, killed 14. The soldiers returned the fire. Feisal was killed, along with Crown Prince Abdul Illah, the Crown Prince's mother, two nurses and two palace guardsmen...
...Republic Is Here! The rebels later said they had not wanted to kill the young Hashemite King, descendant of the Prophet. Fearing public revulsion against his murder, the killers kept his death a secret, wrapped him in a carpet and smuggled his body away to be buried. But the Crown Prince, who had ruled the country for 14 years as Regent, and was widely disliked, was another matter. His assassins threw his body out a window, let the mobs drag him through the streets and string his body up in public. Then the plotters began systematically rounding up government ministers...
...skull, put there by a Cuban gangster ostensibly bent on robbery. He has had three heart attacks. Yet he works a 14-hour day, and spends so much time inspecting his far-flung properties that he has a Cadillac specially equipped for sleeping. For his trouble, the king of the world's sugar merchants has also collected a fortune variously estimated at between $70 million and $100 million...