Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, Egypt's new premier, grizzled old Ismail Sidky Pasha, pleaded with his people to keep their fezzes on. Sidky's regime sympathized with nationalist goals-evacuation of British troops in Egypt, an end to British joint control over the Sudan. But cautious Sidky knew that negotiations to revise the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty might consume weeks; it might take only minutes to touch off another riot...
...heard in April at The Hague, when the court meets for the first time with these Assembly-elected judges: Charles De Visscher (Belgium), J. Philadelpho de Barros e Azevedo (Brazil), Sir Arnold D. McNair (Britain), John E. Read (Canada), Hsu Mo (China), Alejandro Alvarez (Chile), Abdel Hamid Badawi Pasha (Egypt), J. Gustavo Guerrero (El Salvador), Jules Basdevant (France), Fabela Alfaro (Mexico), Helge Klaestad (Norway), Bohdan Winiarski (Poland), Sergei B. Krylov (Russia), Green H. Hackworth (U.S.), Milovan Zoricich (Yugoslavia...
...Egyptian, Dr. Abdel Hamid Badawi Pasha, seldom speaking, always aware that within the morals and fires of the debate a great contest for Eastern empire was on between the Briton and the Russian...
...more moderate Palestine Arab Party was satisfied with British action stopping Jewish immigration. The extremist Independence Arab Party favored immediate action against the Jews. In desperation, Mardam called in Iraq's Nuri Pasha, an old hand at settling Arab disputes. At week's end, negotiations broke down again...
Both were wrong. Next day Cairo's crooked streets spawned more trouble. More stores, Arab as well as foreign, were looted, and synagogues in Cairo and Alexandria were set afire. Doughty Premier Nokrashy Pasha personally seized two pillagers by the scruff of the neck, had them arrested. By the second nightfall more than 1,000 persons had been jailed in Cairo alone, many of them for looting...