Word: seif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eytan and Colonel Yigal Yadin, Israeli Chief of Operations, signed the 5,000-word armistice agreement. Colonels Seif edDin and Mohamed Rahmani signed for Egypt. Thus, in a smoke-filled salon of the Hotel des Roses on the island of Rhodes, peace-tentative but perhaps durable-came to the Middle East...
...obviously for a celebration, from a DC-3 that had flown in from Cairo. Historic Beersheba, crossroads of the Negeb desert, had been the last stumbling block. By dint of arms, the Jews had Beersheba, and they believed it indispensable as a base for their desert reclamation projects. Before Seif edDin would give it up formally, he had to fly to Cairo for his government's consent. If he got consent, he told the correspondents, he would bring back a little something for a party...
...labors, said Walter Eytan, had been "superhuman." Said Seif edDin: "One of the world's greatest men." A somewhat backhanded tribute also came from a young U.S. Army officer, a Southerner, who is a member of Bundle's staff: "I always swore I'd never work for a Nigra. Well, Dr. Bunche is a real man. His color just happens to be a little different...
While the Arab Leaguers waited in Riyadh, the late Yahya's eldest son Prince Seif el Islam Ahmed captured the Yemenite capital of Sana. Ahmed el Wazir, who had proclaimed himself Imam after Yahya's death,, fled. Prince Ahmed, who had been his father's chosen heir all along, at last became Imam...