Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demonstrations ended as indiscriminate orgies of looting, rioting, burning. Cairo's one-day toll: several dead, 230 injured (including 90 Egyptian policemen). In Alexandria another 200 were hurt. In both cities scores of foreign stores were damaged. Egypt's firm, tight-lipped Premier, Mahmoud Fahmy El Nokrashy Pasha, and its British Acting Police Commandant, Major General T. W. Fitzpatrick, were angry but optimistic...
Consul Eaton, soon disgusted by the greed and eternal haggling of the Tripolitan Pasha, decided that appeasment did not pay. Instead he set up a howl for naval action. If he had his way, he stormed, the U.S. would fit out a fleet, sink every corsair on sight and "let the Pashas wreak their vengeance on the consuls- if they pleased, eat them...
Seraglio in the Harbor. Contemptuous of the Consul's two-bit nation, Tripoli's Pasha cared little whether the U.S. fulfilled his increasing demands or not. Yankee merchantmen made good prizes, filling his coffers and slave pens as full as tribute would. Eventually, in a petulant burst of impatience, he declared war by chopping down the flagpole at the consulate...
...Pasha in the Desert. Morris soon sailed for home. Eaton quickly followed, to promote his own plan for the conquest of Tripoli. He proposed to place on the throne of Tripoli a pusillanimous and vacillating ex-Pasha, Hamet Karamanli, whose bloodthirsty younger brother Yusuf reigned supreme after having murdered one relative and frightened his rabbity senior away...
When Eaton returned to North Africa, he was flush with a $20,000 revolution-promotion fund. His first task was to find the rightful Pasha, who had fled in terror far up the Nile. After a two-month search he found his man. Somewhat reluctantly, Hamet signed a treaty of alliance with the U.S., made Eaton a general in his army, and agreed to march on Tripoli...