Word: sultans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America's relationship with Israel be examined more critically. Even before the establishment of the State of Israel. Zionist leaders consciously conceived of Israel as a tool of European, and inter American, imperialist powers. Theodore Herzl, founder of the Zionist movement, wrote in his diary. "If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we could in return undertake the complete management of the finances of Turkey. We would form there a part of a wall of defense of Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilization against barbarism. We would as a neutral state, remain in contact with...
...crude shipments originate. The gulf at its neck narrows until the supertanker channel is only twelve miles wide at the Strait of Hormuz, which Premier Hoveida calls "our jugular vein." Iran worries that dissident forces, like the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman, which is currently fighting Sultan Qabus in Oman, could block the strait by sinking a supertanker. The Shah's response has been a pride of military powers so vast that he not only can neutralize the guerrillas but also dominate the gulf. Says one U.S. diplomat: "The Arabs like to call it the Arabian...
Ruth rapidly became not only the Sultan of Swat but an aspiring social lion awkwardly eager to say the right thing. The rude, uneducated kid from Baltimore's waterfront once convulsed guests at a formal dinner party by spurning a plate of asparagus. "Asparagus," he explained to his hostess in his politest tones, "makes my urine smell." Asparagus, though, was about the only thing that Ruth would not eat. He used to munch hot dogs during practice sessions with the Yankees, once put away an omelet made of 18 eggs and three big slices of ham. He was equally...
...received the first major chunk. There are a lot of petrodollars to go around. Kuwait recently has begun pumping money into shares of unidentified U.S. and European companies, and Abu Dhabi plans to buy a major interest in a big office building in London. Sultan Qabus bin Said of Oman even got into the act last week: he reportedly paid $4 million for a German hotel and 4,000 surrounding acres. He wants to turn it into a summer residence for his mother...
George Herman Ruth, also known as the Babe, Bambino, Sultan of the Swat, and even as Tarzan, was one of those men. In the time just after World War I, he stepped into the limelight both for his spectacular ball playing and for his spectacular off-the-field escapades...