Word: syria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to a legend told by Syria's Faris el Khoury, an Arab counts only happy days in reckoning his age. On that basis, Arabs did not grow much older in the 18-day General Assembly session...
...common hatred of Zionism. Big, hawknosed Charles Malik, the rangy giant of Lebanon, once taught philosophy at Harvard. His part-Christian, part-Moslem state favors Arab independence but fears a pan-Islamic movement which might engulf the Christians of Lebanon. Little, white-thatched Paris el Khoury of Syria has spent a lifetime in politics opposing the Turks, the French, and now the Zionists. He likes a sedentary life, moves at the speed of a slow-motion film. Asked last week if he thought the Assembly was dragging, El Khoury, with great deliberation, said: "No, I do not consider that things...
Margaret Truman, whose singing teacher said her voice was "much, much better" than when she made her radio debut eight weeks ago, signed a contract to make her "in person" debut at Pittsburgh's Syria Mosque next week. It would be the start of a tour, with more concerts in Ohio, Texas, Oklahoma...
Among the 55 delegations were representatives of five Arab states (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia), who regarded the cause of Palestine Arabs as their own. But the success or failure of a Palestine solution ultimately depended on the U.S., the United Kingdom, and the U.S.S.R...
...saints beckoned from panels small enough to put in a wallet. Rams and lions from ancient Antioch displayed their gold and silver manes in 5th Century mosaics. There was a polished statuette of Astarte, the pagan goddess of fertility, whose memory died hard among the Christian farmers of Northern Syria. Bronze oil lamps, surmounted by leaping lions and the hooked beaks of griffins, stood dry and wickless under glass. Once the lamps had flickered, fiercely golden, on the night-tables of dying bishops and children afraid of the dark...