Word: meri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lebanon's Prime Minister Sami Solh, who narrowly escaped assassination two weeks ago on the road from Béit Meri and was irate at the rebels' continued holdout, tendered his resignation, but President Chamoun refused it. Puffing worriedly on a hubble-bubble water pipe, Solh told newsmen that he could have been butchered as was Iraq's Nuri asSaid "if the American forces had been 24 hours late." He went on: "The rebels, who had massed fresh forces and ammunition from Syria, were to launch a big attack shortly after the Iraqi coup...
...dazed and bleeding behind shattered shatterproof glass. Stopped still farther back, Sami Solh's limousine turned round and sped up the mountain road. The assassins made off. That evening fellow townsmen of Fayet Esrouer lugged heavy oak caskets down the jagged river gorge to bring home to Beit Meri what was left of their friends...