Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Naguib drove in his big green staff car to the official palace of Prime Minister Aly Maher, asked him to quit. Aly did. "Authority," he said, "should be concentrated in the hands of the armed forces." By nightfall Naguib, still wearing his uniform, was Prime Minister and Minister of War & Marine...
...Iraq and most of the desert cities and oases of North Africa-followed the Koran's injunction and swarmed into the Lebanese city of Beirut,* the usual way-station on the road to Mecca. Each clutched in the voluminous folds of his ihram (the pilgrim's sheetlike uniform), an airline ticket to Jidda, the airport nearest the holy city...
...same at Montazah, Farouk's summer home. Beside the King's bed were six telephones, two radios and his field marshal's uniform. In Queen Narriman's boudoir lay her latest reading matter: Lady Chatterley's Lover and Arabian Nights in French. In Her Majesty's bathroom still hung her dainty white bathrobe, left behind in the rush...
...pull of the dead." The pull drags the captain down to the ocean bottom quite literally, as a deep-sea diver, and there the lure of death almost claims his spirit. But at last a sensible miss hauls him up again, buffs the dull film of mysticism from his uniform buttons, and restores him to life-in this case, another tugboat...
...final Olympic basketball game between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.: I happened to sit behind the Red China delegation . . . They were applauding both teams, when just before halftime a comrade with an Olympic uniform (I believe from Bulgaria) came over and set them straight. From then on, the applause went strictly to the Russians...