Word: saud
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...pilgrimage to Mecca. Dressed in a ceremonial robe of unstitched white cloth, the earnest, personable chief of Egypt's military junta left Cairo by air with an entourage of 75. In Jidda, the Arabian seaport by which most pilgrims enter, the Naguib party was met by Crown Prince Saud and eleven emirs, all sons of ancient, wily King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud...
...Cairo rumor mill was spluttering overtime with word that Jordan's handsome King Hussein, 18, had finally decided to marry: 1) one of the 120-odd daughters of Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, or 2) a daughter of Saudi Arabia's Prince Feisal, or 3) Egyptian Princess Dina Abdul Hamid...
...husband was out of town. Suddenly they heard the husband's approaching footsteps. The wife had the presence of mind to scream, "Thief! Thief!" and Salih, catching on, pretended that he was trying to escape. Salih was captured and arraigned for judgment before the local ruler, Emir Saud ibn Jiluwi, who decreed the traditional Arabian punishment for a habitual thief: public amputation of his right hand. Salih calmly accepted the verdict and did not even flinch when the Emir's men chopped off his hand at the wrist-for he knew that he had got off lightly...
...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...
...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...