Word: persian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Persian Saying...
...coat and tie for a Mapai rally at which Ben-Gurion and everybody else on the platform wore open-necked shirts. As quickly as was diplomatically possible, Eban stripped to his shirtsleeves and scored a smashing comeback by appealing for votes with U.N.-style eloquence in Arabic, Spanish, French, Persian and Hebrew. Peres and Eban are now in line for top government posts, and Ben-Gurion makes no secret of the fact that he would like to see one-eyed General Moshe Dayan, the man with the eye patch, his successor...
Meeting for the first time outside the Middle East, the ten-nation Arab League last week sought desperately to give the color of truth to diplomats' and demagogues' claims of 75 million Arabs standing as one, "from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf." Instead, the session at Morocco's Atlantic port of Casablanca served only to show how deeply divided the Arab world...
...destroyed again by Genghis Khan. Near the end of the 13th century, Marco Polo reported it once more a "very great and eminent city," and 100 years later Tamerlane made it the capital of his empire, which stretched from the Hellespont to the Ganges, and from Siberia to the Persian Gulf...
Going on the auction block in London some time next month: an unused Jaguar, two Rolls-Royces, some antique furniture, Persian rugs and other oddments. Former owner: Iraq's late King Feisal, gunned down last year in Iraq's brief but bloody revolution...