Word: meccas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more fanatical isolationists cried that it was a work of the devil. Replied Ibn Saud: "Of a certainty if it is the work of the devil, the holy words of the Koran will not pass over it." Holy words passed over the new line in Riyadh to Mecca; the objectors subsided. The money for these innovations comes largely from two sources: 1) the income derived from pilgrims to Islam's.Holy City, Mecca (where Mohammed was born); 2) his revenues from a great oil concession granted twelve years ago to the principal U.S. agency in his country, the Arabian-American...
...muezzins nearly fell out of their minarets. In mosques and bazaars, hadjis (pilgrims who have gazed upon Mecca's sacred shrine, the Kaaba) nearly tugged out their Prophetlike beards. For is it not written in the Koran: "It is for women to act as their husbands act towards them. ... Yet are the men a step above them?" But 100 women, representing seven Middle Eastern countries, had demanded equal rights for Arab women...
...year-old Romanesque towers and Gothic spires that once thrust up over the city. If so, they were probably the last men who would ever see them. For the architectural treasures of the city, which Henry Adams (Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres) once called a "Romanesque Mecca," seemed doomed. Among them were...
...hundred miles west of Hafar-el-Ats, the U.S. presented Ibn Saud's Arabia with another, even more persuasive Lend-Lease cargo. At sweaty, sultry Jidda on the Red Sea, where legend has buried Eve and the main road runs to Mecca, an American freighter unloaded 7,000,000 silver coins (riyals), minted in Philadelphia and valued...
...Guardia. Last week he began practicing what he had preached, sponsored a highly promising opera company of the City's own. He had been itching to do so ever since two years ago, when the City inherited a massive masterpiece of Turkish-bath rococo, formerly known as Mecca Temple, which had succumbed through tax delinquency...