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Word: saluki (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sheik Sulman has a palace, neat but not gaudy, overlooking the oilfields. He collects falcons, saluki dogs and fast Arabian race horses. He has a private preserve of black buck gazelles imported from India, and is the only one allowed to shoot them. Like Kuwait's Abdullah and most of the sand-dune sheiks, he has never traveled beyond the Middle East and doesn't intend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIX KINGDOMS OF OIL: THE PERSIAN GULF STRIKES IT RICH | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

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