Word: medinae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College of William and Mary in Virginia, the guests included Chief Justice Earl Warren and his British counterpart, Lord Chief Justice Goddard. Members of the Virginia judiciary were there, as well as such celebrities as Arthur Lehman Goodhart, master of University College, Oxford, and Judge Harold Medina. The notables had come to honor three great jurists: Sir William Blackstone, John Marshall, and George Wythe, who 175 years ago was appointed by William and Mary to the first chair of law in the U.S. But though the tributes to these three were the purpose of the ceremony, the center of attraction...
...doors, many Moroccan nationalists celebrated the day in the name of exiled Ben Youssef. A more significant omen for Morocco's future took place in the city of Port Lyautey. There 8.000 to 10.000 resentful Arabs, led by single-minded nationalists, had gone on a rampage in the medina (native quarter) the week before. They killed seven Europeans, including a woman and her daughter, whose stomachs they slit open with knives. The women's bodies were dragged through the streets of the medina. The French last week retaliated with a brutal show of force known as ratissage, literally...
...French cut off the medina with three cordons of troops, through which no Arab could escape. Inside the medina were detachments of Foreign Legionnaires, colonial infantry with tanks, barefoot Berber goumiers, whose hatred of the Arabs is legendary, and French police from whose wrists swung weighted truncheons. Police men, working with maps, split the medina into half a dozen sectors. Then the legionnaires, working systematically, began breaking down the doors of every house...
...hill in Port Lyautey's medina is a dusty sheep market. Legionnaires drove the Arab men there and herded them under the muzzle of a Patton tank. A dozen policemen formed a gauntlet, six on either side. One by one, the Arabs were thrust forward, each with his hands on his head...
...French, there is no really powerful nation always assured of the victory our favor brings. Generally, though, an underdog people or nation can be counted on to lick the oppressor, especially if an itinerant American adventurer falls in love with the rebel leader's daughter (played by Patricia Medina...