Word: oman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whatever is necessary for the conduct of the church." Last week in Salt Lake City, nearly 500 business and civic leaders, representing Judaism and a dozen Christian churches, gathered at a testimonial banquet honoring the ninth man in Mormon history to be in direct communication with God. He David Oman McKay, 89, a kindly ascetic who has presided over the most astonishing decade of growth that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day saints has ever seen...
...small countries that depend on the U.N. for a platform, for protection, and for the heady excitement of sharing in the management of the world. Their resolutions (such as the indignant motion of Yemen, the Sudan, et al. accusing Britain of armed aggression in the little desert sultanate of Oman four years ago) were all over the new agenda. In all, 90 items were on the list for full debate on the floor in the weeks ahead...
...princes and powers around the Persian Gulf, and they do it on the simple theory that their nomadic ancestors once roamed the ground in question. Backward Yemen claims all of the Aden Protectorate, whose border is disputed in turn by Saudi Arabia, which has claims on Muscat and Oman as well. Iran claims Bahrein, and Iraq's rulers have always coveted the desert sheikdom of Kuwait, currently the richest country per acre and per capita in the Middle East. But nobody ever took the claim seriously until General Abdul Karim Kassem, "sole leader" of Iraq, announced during the course...
...considering appointing a group of Assistant Deans and letting them choose their own boss.... On June 10, in time for Commencement, the MTA starts running again.... The University grants honorary degrees to Casey Stengel, Brendan Behan, Francoise Sagan, Everett McKinley Dirksen and Al Capp ... Muscat declares war on Oman. The State Department says it would "view very seriously" any Soviet intervention. Soviet ambassador Menshikov replies, "Who's intervening? Who even cares?" "Provocation," says Castro...
...desert from the venery-in-Araby school-Paul Bowles and Frederic Prokosch-and return it to the unperfumed condition described by that old camel trammeler, Foreign Legion Novelist Percival Christopher (Beau Geste) Wren. The Legion defends no forts in this tale, but there is an outfit called the Trucial Oman Scouts and there is, as a matter of fact, a defended fort. There is also some rousing prose, not all of it defensible. The book opens with: "Call Aubrey George Grant! The moment had come. My mouth felt suddenly dry. The Court was waiting and I knew the ordeal ahead...