Word: othman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cross a foreign border? There was an embarrassing silence in Amman. Someone thought the flight had been cleared through U.N. Representative Pier Spinelli. In a prompt denial, Spinelli snapped: "What do you think we are, a travel bureau?" The chief of the Royal Jordanian Air Force, Lieut. Colonel Ibrahim Othman, who still suffers occasional blackouts from head injuries suffered when he was caught and badly mauled by the Baghdad mob during the July 14 rebellion in Iraq, remembered having given someone an order to obtain diplomatic clearance from Syria, but failed to follow...
...early convert to Islam, Othman ben Affan (A.D. 574-656) has chronicled his own practice of this custom before Mohammed outlawed it. Ben Affan was burying his own daughter alive. As he was covering the child with earth, some dust was thrown up on his beard. The daughter, her arms still free, reached up to wipe the dust from her father's face; he proceeded with the grisly burial. Later, in describing the incident," he said: "It was the only time in my life that I ever shed a tear...
...Order. The change touched off such a rash of punditing and often conflicting views that Scripps-Howard Columnist Frederick C. Othman wrote: "One consolation about this Malenkov blowup in Moscow is the undisputed fact that I personally know as much about it as any of the alleged Russian experts...