Word: saud
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...nature's most potent liquids, oil and alcohol, came hand in hand to the desert kingdom of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud. In the early days of his long reign, Ibn Saud's Moslem subjects were as dry as the sands they lived on, for such is the law of the Koran. Then the infidels came to tap the oil, and brought with them the other liquid. Soon the clink of glass against bottleneck began to be heard in the new man-made oases of the Saudi Arabian desert...
...Powerful Ethiopian. Since Ethiopia has neither general elections nor a free press, many Eritreans fear that they may lose their new freedom. No monarch in the world today (except perhaps Saudi Arabia's Ibn Saud) wields greater power over his country's affairs than does Haile Selassie. Selassie personally opens all diplomatic pouches from his missions abroad, keeps in personal touch with embassies and legations by letter, appoints and dismisses every one of twelve provincial governors, handpicks his two houses of Parliament, assigns lands and sets rents for houses, keeps careful tabs on his Imperial Guardsmen fighting...
...Anthony Eden, the loose-jointed league was formed in 1945 to promote the political federation of the Middle East-and to enable the British to deal with a single Arab agency instead of with half a dozen squabbling dynasties. At that moment, Saudi-Arabia's crusty old Ibn Saud grandly proclaimed that the league "enshrines the fondest hopes of the Arab people," yet by the time it was three years old, it went down to dismal defeat and division in the Arab-Israeli war. Since then, the Arab League has been torn by feuds between Egypt and the Hashimites...
...large turnout. For one thing, the ordained day of the pilgrimage's start this year fell on a Friday, and a pilgrim who makes the hajj on Friday (the Moslem sabbath) is seven times blessed and sure to achieve heaven. For another, Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, whose oil-rich country includes Mecca, had lifted the usual tax of $52 per pilgrim. Agents of the three local airlines began selling tickets to Jidda like hot cakes. But when the holders turned up in Beirut, they found that there were not nearly enough planes to carry them...
After a year of airwave conversation, Prince Talal, 22, son of Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, flew to Sardinia to meet a ham-radio pal, pretty Maria Marras, 23, daughter of a Cagliari dentist. The visit over, the Prince gave Maria a present: a new $1,500 antenna for her set calculated to bring his voice in loud and clear...