Word: syrians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born in Rome of U.S. parents, Haseltine was raised in the saddle, once rode a polo pony up the 107 steps of the Altieri Palace just for a lark. At one time or another he owned three lions, several macaws, an Indian bull, a Syrian ram, assorted Asiatic wildcats, plenty of monkeys. Some of them he modeled...
...only major opposition was expected to come from the five Arab states in the U. N. Faris EI Khoury, Syrian delegate to the Security Council and leading Arab spokesman here, said the Arab countries would vote against a special session unless the British request was accompanied by a recommendation for a solution of the Palestine problem
...Liberals. For 16 years, the Liberals had elected a President. But last year, Gaitan, running as a breakaway Liberal candidate, split his own party by attacking Gabriel Turbay, the official Liberal candidate. Colombia, cried Gaitan, needed a candidate issued from a "Colombian belly." Turbay's parents were Syrian...
...cream-colored Casino, two Syrian textile magnates risked a fortune at baccarat. Smartly dressed socialites played roulette with 100 peso* chips; their cooks were there, too-risking two peso chips on the wheel's turn. If the season ran true to form, at least one despondent loser would sooner or later plunge into the two-foot-deep canal outside the Casino, be ignominiously fished out of the mud unhurt...
...Jerusalem, Irgunists attacked a British jeep with flamethrowers, tossed three hand grenades into the compound of the Syrian Orphanage, three others into the R.A.F. billet on the Street of the Prophets...