Word: salaams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Robert M'Gowan Barrington-Ward, 56, editor of the great, grey London Times; after long illness; at Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika, East Africa. Lean, quiet Barrington-Ward became editor in paper-starved 1941, nevertheless helped restore to "The Thunderer" (which had subsided to a quiet echo of government policy) the old, forthright attitude that made it "free enough to cause some mutterings on the extreme Right and even some delighted flutterings on the Left...
Doctor Bill. In Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika, a witch doctor went to the police station for help in collecting a bill from a client who "asked me to call a lion to kill his enemy. I did. The enemy is dead...
Ducking in and out of the sunshine is order to avoid misapprehensions about Beantown's infamous weather, we noticed a few new faces on the Charles greening banks. We weren't the only ones to notice those impudent middle who failed to salute, come to attention, or even salaam to our newly arrived ENSIGNS...
Palestine's new High Commissioner, Field Marshal Lord Gort, drove ceremonially through Jerusalem's tortuous, tipped-up streets. Crowds shouted (in Hebrew) "Shalom"; (in Arabic) "Salaam." Both words meant peace. But the words were only words: the Holy Land was tense again with trouble. Jews and Arabs had given up open fighting for the duration. But through the Palestine censorship, tightest in the Middle East, trickled tales of Jewish terrorism against the British...
Other TIME subscribers are fighting yellow fever in Uganda, mining tin in Bolivia, teaching inside China. One is a customs inspector at Dar-es-Salaam; another is the President of Finland...