Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time the army moved last year against King Farouk, 101 guns boomed across the brooding Nile. Four hours later, a great crowd gathered with Naguib to hear the muezzin chant familiar verses from the Koran. Then, as the sun came up, they knelt in humility with their faces towards Mecca...
During World War I, Great Britain commissioned the proud Hashemites, an old Mecca family, to lead the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Turks. To reward the Hashemites at war's end, the British carved up the Turkish empire, installed Hashemites as rulers over two vast chunks of it. Thus were Jordan and Iraq (formerly Mesopotamia) brought awkwardly into the world. The grateful Hashemites have remained loyal to Britain. Until 1948, they remained loyal to each other as well. Then Jordan's Abdullah, warrior hero of World War I, defied the Arab League by annexing Arab Palestine for himself...
Toledo's Commodore Perry Hotel had never seen a convention quite like it. On the hotel's ballroom floor one evening last week, some 50 men took off their shoes, stepped reverently on to white sheets and prostrated themselves toward Mecca (compass bearing from Toledo: 100° true), chanting, "Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar" (God the Almighty). Blackrobed imams read from the Koran and repeated with the faithful, "La Ilaha Illal-Lah" (There is no God but God). The second annual convention of the International Moslem Society, with some 500 Moslems gathered from 45 states and five...
Back in France, Foucauld found North Africa and its people haunting him. The sight of the Moslems praying towards Mecca five times a day had given Foucauld, a freethinker from the age of 14 "a glimpse of something greater and truer than anything I had hitherto seen in the worldly world." He said goodbye to Mimi and rejoined his outfit, but after another tiff with his C.O., he quit the army for keeps. He turned to exploring. First mastering Hebrew, he posed as a rabbi in order to go into the Rif (the hill country of Morocco), something no more...
...hustle to get its own money, but more and more, individual problems have become school problems. Though inde dependently-minded and involved with his own experiments, the department man takes a world view of public health. He catches the spirit of the Dean who says that Harvard is a "mecca for world health...