Word: pasha
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When the British tried to hustle Jordan into the Baghdad Pact, Nasser turned loose his Voice of the Arabs on the Jordan mobs, helped get Britain's Glubb Pasha expelled from Jordan. Then the West learned that Nasser had contracted to buy not $60 million worth of arms (as he indicated) but $240 million worth; he had mortgaged Egypt's cotton crop to the Communists for years to come. Later Nasser also triumphantly announced that the deal was with Russia itself, not Czechoslovakia. Abruptly the U.S. lost patience, withdrew its offer to help finance the Aswan...
...Pasha Pants. First came the Mardi Gras traditional "Mystic Krewe"-70 men dressed in crown-shaped hats, yellow sailor-type collars, ballooning gold pants. gold sashes and white masks. Next came the "King," Louisiana Industrialist (forest products) Parrish Fuller, who was costumed in a jeweled crown, aquamarine pasha pants and cloak. Then 26 pretty Louisiana "queens" - Yambilee (i.e., yams) Queen, Shrimp Queen, Cotton Queen, Livestock and Pasture Queen, etc. -each accompanied by a masked "Duke" in wig, buckled shoes and knee breeches. Each queen curtsied low to the evening's guests of honor, Vice President Richard Nixon...
Pseudonyms ranged from "Washboard Sam" to "Elmirsemirfermir Moustapha pasha" to the more obscure...
...consulate kitchen while the boy's militant father was trying to starve him into a semblance of manly vigor. Sixteen years were to pass before Said and De Lesseps met again. Then, pudgy Said was the ruler of Egypt and Ferdinand had resigned from the consular service. Said Pasha invited De Lesseps to come to Egypt, was quickly won over to the canal project...
...Western "imperialists," gave Syria a $10 million loan as an inducement to join too. The Saudi information director began regular swings through Lebanon, Syria and Jordan delivering funds to pro-Nasser newspapers and favored editors and reporters. During the riots in Jordan preliminary to the ejection of Glubb Pasha, Jordan editors received ?100 notes pinned to articles attacking Glubb...