Word: sidi
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...last flat light tipped the orange trees and spacious rose gardens, a car swung off the main road from Rabat and up the long drive to the big, Norman-style royal villa. His Majesty Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, Sultan of Morocco, stepped out just as two cannon shots sounded through the still twilight air, signaling sunset and the end of Ramadan's day-long fast...
...stooge Sultan, went on a major uprising in the Atlas Mountains. The last straw for the French came when El Glaoui himself drove into Rabat in his black Bentley and blandly declared: "I identify myself with the wish of the Moroccan nation for a prompt restoration of Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef...
...people when he allowed his daughter to expose herself in public, offending every right-thinking Moslem? Urged on by the French, back-country chiefs signed up, until El Glaoui had the signatures of 311 of Morocco's 323 caids. In a matter of days a crestfallen Sidi Mohammed was bundled onto a plane with his two wives, five children, and assorted veiled ladies of the court for exile in Corsica. El Glaoui briskly produced his replacement as Sultan-goateed Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa, a timid cousin of Sidi Mohammed...
JACQUES A. SIDI...
...known that a fleet of eight transports, with a capacity of 10,000 troops per trip, had been mobilized in Marseille and Algerian ports, while a task force of one cruiser and six destroyers was already at sea, escorting troop convoys from the Algerian port of Sidi-Ferruch to Cyprus...