Word: mufti
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Templer is the perfect picture of a British regular soldier: an austere, stiff-backed autocrat in uniform-and in mufti a bit of a dandy. He lived elegantly in London's Belgravia and became a connoisseur of claret, crystal and ijth century books. But in the company of his old war comrades he could relax. Says one: "He'll bring along an elderly fellow in civilian attire and introduce him to the officers as 'You remember Sergeant So-and-So. He and I fought together at So-and-So.' Sometimes if you happen to mention...
Stopgap. The U.N.'s millions are a stopgap, not a solution. Four years of living on a dole has turned the Arab refugee camps into centers of Communism and extremist agitation. Even the unsavory Grand Mufti, who used to control the camps, has recently lost out to the more radical agitators. So long as the refugee camps exist, stability in the Middle East is impossible...
...found in Army Field Manual 27-10 under "Intercourse Between Belligerents" or "Capitulations and Armistices." The U.S. has not grown such a general yet, but a good many generals, late in life, are going through elementary classes. Now that Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall and Clay are in mufti, Mark Wayne Clark has probably had more such political experience than any U.S. general on active duty...
...early 1930s in the U.S. when jobless men sat around all day with nothing to do except feel sorry for themselves. The men of Jerusalem don't know where to go, which way to turn. There are no leaders, no men with messages. Even the evil former Grand Mufti has lost a substantial part of his following, because he no longer does anything, no longer sends his devoted followers money...
...Musa el Husseini, cousin of Jerusalem's exiled Mufti...