Word: simoon
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...political simoon swept the Levant. In Beirut and Damascus the bazaars seethed. Shops were shut, transport suspended. Students marched defiantly through streets emptied of everything but aloof camels. In their barracks, sullen French troops waited tensely, side by side with nervous French civilians...
...doughty express, veiled, escorted, guarded, had personally visited her "ditch," she could scarcely have received a less realistic picture of how it was built than Darry I. F. Zanuck gives the American public. The workmen, the soldiers, the treachery of the Arabs and have of the simoon are all shown, but the audience is too far away to see any of the sweat and suffering and sorrow that went into the canal. Instead, Tyrone Power mopes about Europe as Loretta Young becomes the Empress Eugenie and ends every line by sticking out her hand to be kissed...
Winds gradually abate in fury. A spot of pure, translucent blue can be seen now through the inky heaven. Clouds disappear like magic. Great quantities of sand settle on the cold plain like rain on a marshy flat. The Simoon is gone! Oaths from native drivers bring struggling beasts to their feet. Loads are replaced, straps tightened. Hearts beat high again with hope. Endless journey across the white sands of the Gobi is resumed . . . and the Vagabond travels to Chinese 11 to hear Mr. Gardner in his charming and inimitable manner recount dramatically life in the Far East...
...passes by 'galloon,' 'simoon...
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