Word: saud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Riyadh, old King Ibn Saud, the invalid Lord of the Desert, fumed in his wheelchair. An Arab League official who called on him to discuss burning questions of Israel and Middle East defense could not get him off the subject of perfidious Albion...
...Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, who thanked the President for the U.S. aid to his country during the recent floods. ¶Prince Feisal, Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia and second of King Ibn Saud's 30 odd sons, who brought Ike an 111n. gold dagger, a black burnoose...
...offer. English-born MacPherson first got to know the Middle East when he served in General Allenby's Palestine army in World War I. Meanwhile Pacific Western Oil's* J. Paul Getty bought up the other half of the Neutral Zone's concession from King Ibn Saud for $10.5 million. Since the halves are indivisible (i.e., each alike share in any oil found anywhere in the zone). Davies and Getty pooled their operations, jointly paid for MacPherson's drilling...
Proud old King Ibn Saud was outraged. He ordered the arrest of his son and offered Mrs. Ousman the privilege of prescribing his death in any way she saw fit, with the added promise that his head should be stuck on a pike outside the British embassy. The widow declined the offer and accepted $70,000 in damages. Soon afterward the old King cut his son's sentence to a jail term with 20 lashes each month. The fault, he had decided, had been not so much the prince's as that of the foreigners who had taught...
...country. The last remaining supplies of whisky were being doled out to Arabian-American Oil Co. workers at the rate of three bottles a month. Twenty Aramco workers had already quit, and more were threatening to, unless the company could persuade the King to repeal prohibition. But Ibn Saud gave no sign of giving in. There were even rumors that he is planning, soon to forbid Aramco's foreign women to walk the streets unveiled...