Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Lev as he invokes the Roosevelt "Nude Eel," makes an "important lung-distant call" and regards any setback for John Henry as "a terrible shot to th' boy's nerves cistern." Among them, this unlikely crew make Taurum Topic A all over the globe. The Moslem Brotherhood warns that "Israeli plotters [are] at the bottom of the whole thing," the Russians claim they invented the precious gold dust 30 years ago, and a Quai d'Orsay spokesman begs the Americans to "consider the effect of their decision upon the soul of France...
During the 1870s, it suffered an epidemic of cholera, lived through the Russo-Turkish war, was reduced to an enrollment of only 128 after Sultan Abdul Hamid II issued a decree barring Moslem Turks from foreign schools. The 1890s brought another cholera epidemic. Then the country had an earthquake, and Turkey went to war with Greece. As the college was just recovering, the Young Turks revolted. Then came the Balkan Wars, World War I, the Kemal Ataturk revolution of the '20s, and the Great Depression. By 1944, when Ballantine's able predecessor, Floyd Black, took over, the college...
Married. Cecilia DeMille Calvin, 19, granddaughter of Cinemogul Cecil B. DeMille; and Major Abbas El Boughdadly, 33. Egyptian cavalry officer; in twin (Moslem and civil) ceremonies; in San Francisco...
Though it won more Assembly seats than any other party (25 out of 72), it failed to win a majority for the first time in Pakistan's eight years as a nation. The Moslem League took its worst beating in overcrowded East Pakistan (pop. 42 million), which has never cottoned to being dominated by distant Karachi, 1,000 miles across India. Emerging triumphant in East Pakistan was the United Front of fat, cantankerous, 83-year-old Fazlul Huq, whom the government ousted last year as provincial chief minister of East Pakistan on the ground of separatist "treasonable activities." Unable...
...Shalhi gone, the King's relationship with his family underwent a marked improvement. Fatima herself had obligingly picked out two extra wives for her husband, but King Idris was not to be railroaded. He sent his Premier off to Egypt to shop around for a likelier woman (under Moslem law, the King is entitled to four wives at the same time). Three weeks ago in Cairo, while Queen Fatima waited in a village 115 miles away, Idris married the bride that his Premier had picked for him: black-eyed Alia Abdel Kader Lamloum, a ripened Bedouin heiress...