Word: suleiman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used up seven years' tax revenue from Egypt to realize his dream. In 1099, crusaders mounted a gold cross on the dome and turned it into a church. Later, Saladin Avon it back for Islam, lovingly coated the interior arches with mosaic, the walls with marble. Suleiman the Magnificent ordered the exterior walls covered with splendid blue tiles...
...Oman desert sputtered to an end last week with the destruction of the last remaining mud-walled rebel forts, and the flight into the mountains of the rebel Imam of Oman himself, his rascally brother Talib and their only remaining ally of any note, one Sheikh Suleiman bin Himyar, who styles himself "Lord of the Green Mountains." The rest of the Imam's tatterdemalion forces fled off to fend for themselves. Total casualties among the forces of the British and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman since the counteroffensive began: one dead, three wounded, seven cases of heat prostration...
While his security forces pressed a roundup of Communists and other elements suspected of promoting unrest, the young monarch got around to rejecting a resolution adopted three weeks ago by the government of leftist Suleiman Nabulsi for an exchange of envoys between Amman and Moscow...
...military governor for the whole country, the King named his new defense minister, Suleiman Toukan...
Chaos confronted him. His rabble-rousing Arab Nationalist Premier Suleiman Nabulsi had been openly negotiating federation with Syria-which would mean the end of Jordan's independence. The Saudis in the south and the Syrians in the north had used the Middle East crisis to send in troops; the Iraqis were poised, ready to intervene, in the northeast; the Israelis eyed that part of the kingdom lying west of the River Jordan...