Word: sworded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine recognized sons of aging (77) Yahya bin Mohamed bin Hamid el Din, Imam of Yemen, in the southwestern corner of Arabia, are entitled to be called Saif el Islam (Sword of Islam). The Swords have frequently crossed each other, vying for succession to the black mattress with red cushions which is the Imam's couch of state in his capital, Sana. Yahya, who believes in one-man government, named his own successor-eldest son Ahmed, governor of Taiz province. But according to Yemenite tradition, a council of eleven elders should choose the new Imam. So the other sons...
...amiable and popular, but used to be jailed now & then by his father for drinking bouts, is now in retirement on a farm. The eighth son, Ibrahim, fled from Yemen to British Aden a year ago after an unsuccessful attempt to unseat his father. He gave up the title Sword of Islam, called himself Saif el Hag (Sword of Truth...
Last week cables came from Aden to Cairo newspapers saying: "Our father Imam Yahya Hamid el Din has passed away. Ahmed el Waziry has been elected Imam and I am President of the Council." They were signed by Ibrahim. The Arab world wondered whether the Sword of Truth was sure of his facts. Perhaps Ibrahim's friends were trying again to oust Yahya. Last summer, a U.S. mission which visited Sana to sign a million-dollar loan agreement found the Imam in good health. He had recovered from an illness in 1946. But he had given up riding...
...Speaking Swords. Haj Amin el Husseini, ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, in Cairo last week to keep an eye on League proceedings, said: "When the sword speaks, everything else must be silent." In Palestine his Arab organization was busy recruiting volunteers. At Lifta, a village near Jerusalem, Arab leader Sheilah Hasan Abou Saud exhorted Arab volunteers to fight Zionists. Beside him sat Kemal Ureikat, leader of the military organization Futu-wah (Youth...
...came "the catastrophe of success"-Broadway's delight over The Glass Menagerie. Tennessee Williams (a name he had substituted for his real one, Thomas Lanier Williams, which "sounded too much like William Lyon Phelps") suddenly felt like "a sword cutting daisies" and hurried off to Mexico to work toward his high theatrical goal: "Great theater," says he, "is the highest and purest form of religion...