Word: servante
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...King Ibn Saud of Arabia ("Servant of the Mighty One") walks with a slow, deliberate gait. The nine battle wounds of his youth, even the trouble some one in his groin, have not curbed his legendary virility, but they have reduced his ranging stride. Fortnight ago, when he met President Roosevelt on a U.S. cruiser in the Suez Canal (TIME, March 5), the King looked longingly at the President's well-worn wheelchair...
...into the present kingdom of Saudi Arabia, subjected neighboring Yemen (pop. 3,500,000) to his rule but left it nominally autonomous, and imposed an astonishing degree of order upon a people to whom disorder has been the immemorial rule of life. Now, at 65, he is justly called Servant of the Almighty, strong as a lion, subtle as the Koran, straight as a scepter. He is, beyond cavil, the greatest of living Arab rulers...
...area -one-fifth of Canada's land mass-in which live only an estimated 6,150 people (6,000 of them Eskimos). Bank manager, veteran of the Boer War and World War I, holder of the Military Cross, McKeand became a civil servant...
...Ofori had not long been dead when his good friend Akyea Mensah, the Odikro of Apedwa, subchief of Akim Abuakwa. disappeared. The Odikro's servant and two pygmy followers also vanished. For nine months Gold Coast authorities quietly investigated. Then they arrested eight natives, charged them with murdering the Odikro. In time the eight stood in the prisoner's dock in Accra's white, sweltering courthouse. They rolled their eyes, cast covertly accusing glances at each other, sweated while witnesses testified...
They were two entire families, the Shimizus and the Tomayasus, who had lived in small houses alongside a coal-yard near the ditch. Suspects were a brother of one of the murdered men, a former servant of both the families...