Word: rashid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people in Bagdad were not happy. Thousands surged through Rashid Street, Bagdad's dingy main thoroughfare, clamoring for "full independence and sovereignty." Soldiers turned back a mob which tried to close in on the British Embassy. Police and soldiers fired into the crowds. Students went on protest strikes. One correspondent reported that "girl students . . . demonstrated as fiercely as the men, clashed with police, and received bites and injuries; this aroused the public...
Soon the U.S. was obsessed with a challenging peacetime problem- plumbing. Soon it had the most luxurious bathrooms since Haroun A; Rashid piped Tigris water into Bagdad-and in much th esame stryle. It also had the fastest automobile and airplanes, the most lavish radios, the most sumptuous refrigerators, the baggiest plust fours, the biggest skyscrapers housing the biggest millionaires, the biggest speakeasies, the biggest racketeers and gang wars, the biggest crime wave, and in the end the biggest depression, winding up in the biggest war in history...
...like Haroun al Rashid, Prince Mohamed occasionally doffed his princely garb and mingled with commoners...
...Rashid Shari in Bagdad, a barefoot urchin cries his wares: Al Mukhtar Min Reader's Digest. Sales are brisk. He will be sold out the second day. His success is another sensation of the sensationally successful U.S. Reader's Digest (domestic circ. 8,000,000): a skyrocketing demand for its Arabic edition...
...three years waiting for such a chance. Ever since the war's outbreak he had been in oil-rich hot spots, scheming their destruction: in Rumania's oilfields, where the Gestapo nabbed him (but had to release him because Rumania was neutral); in Iraq, when pro-Nazi Rashid Ali El-Gailani took over; in the Dutch East Indies, where he made mistakes he learned not to make a second time...