Word: savioring
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...people. He started on a three-day whistle-stop tour through small towns where Nahas' hold had always been greatest. The reception for Naguib exceeded anything reporters in Egypt had ever seen. Fellaheen along the Nile streamed out of the fields, shouting that Naguib is the "Savior of Egypt, Savior of the Farmers, Gift of Allah." Hundreds of villagers crowded in front of Naguib's Chevrolet convertible and tried to climb in to hug him. The police had to use rifle butts to keep him from being loved to death. After 50 miles of this...
...categorize "Arrow in the Blue" as just another confession of a former CP member would be doing Koestler an injustice. Most of those Saturday Evening Post type chronicles picture their writers as poor, misguided aesthetes who took Marx as their personal savior, and who have learned the hard way that McCarthyism is the only road to the good life. Koestler's self-analysis is of a different sort. It is both penetrating and brutal...
...roused that hope is a soldier whose name was almost completely unknown in Cairo, London or Washington seven weeks ago-Major General Mohammed Naguib (pronounced Nageeb). He is now acclaimed by his people as a savior, and by Western diplomats as the most promising figure to appear in the Middle East since Turkey's late great Kemal Ataturk...
...biggest political party, the corrupt Wafd, broke off a Swiss vacation at the news of Naguib's coup. He boarded a plane for the first time in his life and hastened to Naguib's side, crying: "It is my duty to pay a visit to the savior of the country." They talked for an hour and when they emerged. Nahas, catching sight of waiting photographers, cagily hooked elbows with Naguib and flashed his winning smile. But two days later, Naguib rejected his plea to reconvene Parliament, which the Wafd dominates. Had Naguib given in to Nahas, it would...
...death. He happened to be taking his temperature when the news came. For exactly 17 minutes he lay there thinking, thermometer in mouth. When he rose, his temperature was fine; both Hitler and surrealism were dead phases, and Dali formulated his new line: "I believe that I am the savior of modern art, the only one capable of sublimating, integrating and rationalizing all the revolutionary experiences of modern times in the great classical tradition of realism and mysticism, which is the supreme and glorious mission of Spain...