Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...action of the Kashmir assembly is in direct violation of a United Nations ruling for a popular plebiscite. Since the people of Kashmir are predominantly Moslem, it seems certain that they would have elected accession to Pakistan, not India. In the past, India and Pakistan have successfully negotiated questions equally touchy, such as plans for the administration of railroad stores and refugee bank deposits. The United States should press for further agreement; until the tension in Kashmir is eased, Nehru's protests will continue. The Kashmir negotiations should find an immediate place on the U.N. agenda...
...World Astray. Some of Dawson's essays turn over bits of information that the nonscholarly reader hardly expects to find. (Sample: Christianity got its ideas about courtly love and chivalrous knighthood from the Moslem civilizations of Spain.) But he seldom loses sight of the central struggle of the Middle Ages: the effort to build a truly universal Christian civilization-"the City of God on earth." Mostly the struggle was in the form of competition between the Church and the Holy Roman Empire-"between the ideal of a theocratic empire and that of a theocratic church, each of which...
Coffee has always been exciting. According to a Syrian legend, its use as a beverage began when the head of a Moslem monastery, who noticed that his goats got frisky after eating coffee berries, brewed some to keep his monks awake at evening prayers. Some Moslem fanatics objected violently to its use; it was outlawed and bootlegged in parts of the East...
...coffee at such a rate (5$ billion gallons a year) that if all of a year's consumption were brewed in a Bunyanesque retort and decanted into the Niagara River, it would take 15 hours to tumble over the lip of Niagara Falls (American side). If the somnolent Moslem monks had known that awesome statistic, they would probably have stayed awake and prayed very hard, without the help of coffee...
What Athenagoras brought to Istanbul from the U.S. was a passion for intergroup harmony. He saw that the antique antagonism between Turk and Greek, Moslem and Christian was a menace to the City of God as well as the City of Man, and he dedicated himself to ending...