Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their national armies in a war against Zionists. But they would support a volunteer "People's Army" with recruits, supplies and arms. Britain considered banning arms shipments (as the U.S. did last fortnight) to either Jews or Arabs in Palestine. Arab League Secretary-General Azzam Pasha, who had to stay in bed with a cold during the League meetings last week, was confident that the Arabs would find arms. From his sickbed, his lank form swathed in white-&-orange striped flannel pajamas, Azzam Pasha told a TIME correspondent: "When you are living among rogues and they are going...
Delegates from the seven Arab League states gathered in Cairo to discuss formal war plans. Arab League Secretary-General Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha told Cairo demonstrators who clamored for arms: "You will get arms-an abundance of them. . . . We prefer death to Zionist subjugation. . . ." The Lebanese Parliament voted a million Syrian-Lebanese pounds ($460,000) as a "first installment" donation to the "Palestine Liberation Committee." Deputies pledged one month's pay. Arab youths from Palestine were crossing the border for a month's training with the Syrian army, which had drawn near the Palestine frontier...
...Cairo, Arab League Secretary Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha joined other Arab leaders in promising warfare on the Jews: "I cannot say where and when I will place my troops. I can only say we will fight and are preparing for victory." Azzam Pasha had just returned from a flying visit to Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud. In Azzam Pasha's pocket, said aides, was Ibn Saud's promise to use most of his U.S. oil royalties (about $20,000,000 a year) to modernize his Bedouin army and to arm Palestinian Arabs...
...expedition entered the forest, a depleted band of tattered, hungry men reached the lake at which Emin was to meet them. Emin had received word from natives of Stanley's coming. But Stanley arrived a day earlier than Emin had planned on; disgruntled at not finding the Pasha there, he retired to his camp "to read his Bible. He had read it through once in the forest and was back again at Deuteronomy." Emin showed up next day, found no one, and went back to his station in the hills. After resting for a while in a village...
Three months later he finally met the Pasha, who was considerably better dressed and fed than his rescuers. The Pasha observed the historic meeting by drinking Stanley's champagne and "discoursing charmingly on a number of subjects." He reluctantly accompanied Stanley back to the coast. There, at a reception in his honor, he fell 25 feet from a balcony onto his head. Eventually he returned to the inky interior, and was murdered by Arabs. Said Stanley "... a nearsighted, faithless, ungrateful little...