Word: mohammedanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word derives from the Arabic hash-shashin, "those who use hashish." At the time of the Crusades, a secret sect of the Mohammedan Ismailians employed terrorists while they were ritually high on hashish, which is similar to marijuana...
...theories, the Dutch scientist traveled through the central Africa rain forest until, in northwest Guinea, he found a place where his "dehumanization" hypothesis could be demonstrated. There, in an area with many open plains, the chimpanzees had gradually emerged from the forest, safe from natives who obey the Mohammedan commandment not to eat apes and have no reason to hunt chimps...
...FLAT, G FLAT AND C (Impulse). The featured player is Yusef Lateef, who used to be plain William Evans, tenor saxophonist with Dizzy Gillespie. In the '50s, Evans changed his name, his faith (from Christian to Mohammedan), and the nature of his jazz, turning to such Middle Eastern instruments as the rebab and the arghool. Now he's headed farther east with The Chuen Blues, played on a three-stringed Chinese lute, and Kyoto Blues, on a Taiwan bamboo flute...
...A.U.B.'s 3,245 students and two-thirds of its 628 teachers are Arabs, and any attempts at pro-U.S. or Christian indoctrination are forbidden. This follows the dictum of A.U.B.'s founder, Missionary Daniel Bliss, that "a man, white, black, or yellow, Christian, Jew, Mohammedan or heathen may enter . . . and go out believing in one God, or many Gods...
...little knowledge into the classroom cementheads he adopts football lingo. Chorus the enlightened mastodons of the monosyllable: "It's fun to think." Soon Fodorski gets a chance to apply his Archimedean magic to the great gridironic decisions of educational life, like defeating S.B.I.T.'s football rival. Texas Mohammedan. Fodorski's human pinwheel and pyramidal enemy line-scaling plays make him "All-American coach of the year" and. together with a display of pectoral muscularity called Physical Fitness, give the show its most rollicking chorus routines...