Word: nile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral Sir Walter Henry Cowan, Bart. was awarded the Distinguished Service Order last week for "gallantry, determination and undaunted devotion to duty as liaison officer with the Commandos." The Admiral stands 5 ft. 2 in., and this is his second D.S.O. He won his first on the Nile, 46 years ago, when Horatio Herbert Kitchener, later Earl of Khartum, was fighting the Mahdi. The Admiral...
There had been Pan-Arab parleys aplenty but no action. Every race-proud Arab knew that the time was long overdue for telling the world that Pan-Arabia wanted to play a greater part in fashioning her own future. From the Tigris to the Nile the desert air was sultry with more than summer heat...
...years His Eminence, the Grand Senussi, Seyyid Mohamed Idris, had eaten the bitter bread of exile in a cozy villa on the Nile. But never did the spiritual and temporal leader of three million warlike, puritanical Senussi tribesmen give up hope of returning to his native desert. Never did he falter in hatred of the Italians who had cruelly dispersed his people and turned their holy city of Girabub into a fort. Over cups of China tea flavored with mint (Senussi Moslems may not touch alcohol or coffee), His Eminence entertained intriguing envoys from remote Saharan oases, helped recruit Senussi...
...snowy robes and tasseled headdress, His Eminence posed for Cairo cameramen. Then he climbed aboard a Western Desert train pranked out with plush chairs and fragrant with Nile roses. At battle-battered Tobruk, first stop, the British-trained Cyrenaican Guard of Honor smartly presented arms. Excited Senussi tribesmen bowed, kissed their leader's hand or the top of his sacred head. Down a strip of red carpet His Eminence swished majestically to a waiting British staff...
...spacious, broiling, tented square behind his rambling mansion at Omdurman, on the upper reaches of the Nile, sharp-eyed parents, bright-eyed youths and soft-eyed maidens gathered last week for bargain day. From tent to tent the bridegrooms raced, making their selections. The price was a flat $8 per wife, rich or poor, pretty or plain, young or not, with El Mahdi footing the difference. Then Sir Sayed, tall in his flowing black galabia, appeared upon his pillared porch to intone the Koran's marriage service. Upwards of 300 glistening couples took the vows at Omdurman and blessed...