Word: sherif
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...readership came to feel the self-proclaimed "world's greatest newspaper" was rather the world's gratest. By the time McCormick died in 1955, the list of simplified words, which once ran as high as 80, was already shrinking. Reluctantly, the Trib shot down the sherif and later sank the frater. "Readers," sighs Editor Clayton Kirkpatrick, "wondered if Tribune editors knew how to spell." The latest style book retains only a few relics of the Bennett era, most of them now widely accepted: tho, thru, analog. Prime reason for the return to standard spelling is to bring Trib...
That Hashemite caravan has been a long and winding one. The principal reason for the fanatic support that Hussein received from Bedouin warriors in Jordan is that the King can trace his ancestry back to the Prophet Mohammed. Thirty-seven generations of Hashemites were traditionally Grand Sherifs, or rulers of Mecca, Islam's holiest city, until they were forced out in the early 1920s by the Saud family. At the time of the Saudi takeover, the Grand Sherif of Mecca was Hussein, great-grandfather of the boy Kings. The Sherif thought he had found a way to refurbish...
...British reneged on part of the deal. The Sherif's son Feisal was made King of Iraq, but a second son, Abdullah, was left with nothing. To make amends, Winston Churchill, then a young British Colonial Secretary, called a conference in Cairo in 1921 which sketched the boundaries of a new kingdom on some unallotted lands near Palestine. The country was called Trans-Jordan...
Arafat's price for propping up the King was the dismissal of Hussein's uncle, Major General Sherif Nasser Ben Jamil, as commander in chief of the Jordanian army, and his cousin, Brigadier General Sherif Zeid Ben Shaker, as head of the 3rd Armored Division, which guards Amman and is anti-fedayeen. Hussein acceded to the demands, but he has so far not given in to an ultimatum that the two men must leave the country. At his press conference, the King professed his loyalty to both. As long as they remain in Amman, the threat...
Fedayeen leaders also insisted that Hussein order the resignation of his cousin, Brigadier General Sherif Zeid Ben Shaker, an anti-fedayeen royalist whose 3rd Armored Division guards Amman. Hussein yielded, but warned that this was the last time he would comply with fedayeen demands. Announcing that he was personally taking over as commander in chief of the armed forces, he vowed: "This is the last chance. There will be no other...