Word: sidi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week. They came not to try the golf course, to splash in the pool or to take the waters (which are said to be good for that old weakspot of Frenchmen, the liver). They came instead to see a splendidly installed prisoner, the exiled Sultan of Morocco, Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef. French General Georges Catroux, 78, found His Majesty waiting for him in a nearby villa once occupied by Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth...
...Replace Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, the puppet Sultan whom the French installed in Morocco two years ago, with a three-man regency council. Its senior member: El Mokri, 108, Morocco's feeble old Grand Vizier...
Istiqlal. In 1943, during the Casablanca conference, President Roosevelt invited Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef to join him for dinner. Whether or not Franklin Roosevelt ever made the remark, the report soon spread that he had told the Sultan: "France is finished. Take back your country. We will help." The Sultan's chief interests lay in his harem (40 concubines), his garage (60 cars), and his afternoon game of tennis. Yet, as Imam (Commander of the Faithful), he became the man around whom Moroccans in the new Istiqlal (Independence) Party centered their hopes...
Black Hand. The French replaced Ben Youssef with a wizened old weakling, Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. From that act, more than anything else, stemmed the Moroccan revolt...
...country sloping down through grain fields, vineyards and great olive groves to the sea. It is the classic Ifriqiyeh, which gave its name to the whole continent. From Hannibal and Scipio to Rommel and Patton, soldiers have grappled for its strategical coasts, but the present Bey of Tunis, Sidi Mohammed el Amin, 74, belongs to a dynasty that has reigned for 250 years...