Word: saad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholars, Cross and his fellow scholars had been offered an exceptionally large piece from Cave 4 for $12,000. An old hand at the Bedouin bargaining table, the scholars began making counteroffers. Finally, last summer, during the height of the Middle East crisis, Cross and Jordanian Curator Yusuf Saad of the Palestine Archaeological Museum sat down with Kando for a bit of high-class haggling over tea and Turkish cigarettes...
Cross could tell from straightening out a piece of the tightly rolled leather that it must be a text from Deuteronomy. The bargaining went on for three sessions, and the price slowly descended to about $5,000. Then Cross and Saad hurried into the British Bank of the Middle East, just outside Jerusalem's ancient Damascus Gate, stepped nervously out again into the teeming, clanking tangle of Arabs and animals in Jericho Road with $5,000 in Jordanian pounds, and hurried back for the final transaction...
Egypt's leading party, the Wafd al Misri (meaning Egyptian Delegation), used to be genuinely popular, a vigorous fighter for reform. But with the death in 1927 of its founder, a onetime fellah named Saad Zagluhl, the party began to sag and split. When the Wafd came to power again in January 1950, after years in & out of office, the party pulled a gigantic switch: from its traditional status as His Majesty's loyal opposition, it became His Majesty's obedient servant. The price for the switch: patronage and palace favors for Wafd politicos. The Wafd government...