Word: loyality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Loyal Disciple. The rebel radio voice frenziedly called for the "people" to pour into the streets "to destroy the remnants of the Kassem regime." Between exhortations, martial music filled the air, especially songs extolling Arab unity, and Alahu Akbar (God Is Great), a favorite hymn of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...Mustafa. But the man they put forward as their front man came as a shock to Kassem, fighting for his life inside the battered Defense Ministry. The junta named as its new rebel head of state Colonel Abdul Salam Aref, 41, long Kassem's closest friend and most loyal disciple, and alive only because Kassem commuted his 1959 death sentence...
...Kassem seized power by ruthlessly slaughtering King Feisal II and his ironfisted, pro-Western Premier, Nuri asSaid, who was caught trying to escape the city dressed in women's clothes. In those days Kassem was a brigadier, with the reputation of being the King's most loyal soldier. Actually, he was leader of a group of army conspirators including mercurial Colonel Abdul Salam Aref, a passionate pro-Nasserite. After the young King was slain, Kassem appointed himself Premier, named Aref as his deputy, and proclaimed his dedication to "improving the living standards of our population and saving them...
...many costly mistakes. The Journal's vaunted liberalism was never more than timid; its qualifications as a newspaper were never better than just fair. Toward the end, the paper was losing $90,000 a month, and the till was so bare that Morrison borrowed money from his own loyal staffers-many of whom have not been paid since mid-December...
...movie musicals, or tasteless tours through neurotic junkyards of the mind, or criminal displays of self-ordained talent that might have lasted ten seconds before getting the critical gong on the late Major Bowes's Amateur Hour. Off-Broadway is frittering away the good will of the loyal audiences it has attracted during a goodly decade. If the present trend continues, off-Broadway will be a precocious casualty rather than a fabulous invalid. The choice that lies ahead is stern and simple: aspire or expire...