Word: pasha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glubb Pasha must have had his head buried in the Middle East sands for 25 years if his dismissal from the Arab Legion came as a shock to him. I've been in the Middle East only four years, and it came as no surprise...
Hussein was content to let others run the government. Glubb Pasha, trusted and devoted servant of old King Abdullah, kept the Israeli border quiet and the Legion hotheads in check. Elderly politicians left over from Abdullah's day swapped ministerial posts like musical chairs, and one ministerial clique won the name in Jordan of "the Mau Mau" for the rapacity of their treasury raids. Young Hussein exercised his royal functions unpredictably, showed up at his office erratically, was royally late for appointments with distinguished visitors. Once he encouraged a "purging committee" to clean up the government, paid surprise visits...
...with his sword we will go to war!" Legionnaires shouted: "Back to Palestine!" "It was the first time in the history of the Hashemite family that one of them stood up to the British," said a former Hussein critic. Only some of the old Bedouins, who had called Glubb Pasha their "little father," were silent...
Though Feisal arrived in the company of Iraqi Premier Nuri es-Said, Hussein flew to the rendezvous (piloting his de Havilland Dove himself) without his Prime Minister. Having successfully sacked Glubb Pasha, symbol of Britain's long Jordanian dominance, Hussein seemed to be savoring his independence. He had turned down the invitation to join Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Syria in their Arab "neutral" bloc, and he had already opened negotiations with the British on terms that seemed likely to assure for the young king the continuing of London's $25 million yearly subsidy, and the presence...
...young King of Jordan won a wild popularity in the streets by unceremoniously expelling Glubb Pasha, the British commander of his armed forces. But had he gratified or merely whetted the appetite...