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...Moslem world grew weaker, fanatics called louder & louder for jihad, but met less & less response. When the degenerate Turkish Sultan-Caliph proclaimed a jihad against the Allies in 1914, it was cynically dubbed the "Holy War Made in Berlin." It was the last real jihad and an utter failure...
...holding up his left hand, contributed little that was either sinister or helpful. Jerry Anastasio, one of the notorious brothers, spent 14 minutes on the stand. He sucked his tongue, picked his nose, blew into his hands, spat into his handkerchief and belched-but the only words he would utter were his name...
After two weeks' care in a local hospital, eight-year-old Barbel last week would still eat no solid food and could utter no word. But for the first time in her life, she was playing-apparently happily-with other children. In a prison nearby, mother Rosa awaited trial for gross negligence (maximum sentence: five years at hard labor). "I was so ashamed. I was so ashamed," she muttered again & again...
...about me." Some of the sweepings: "The richest man in the world is the Nizam of Hyderabad, not me. He is also the most avid miser. He has a swimming pool full of diamonds . . . The story that I bottle my bathtub water and sell it to the faithful is utter rubbish . . . Horses are a passion with me. I have just had the best racing season of my life. In England alone...
Ivory Towering Rage. In London, while participating in a television round-table discussion on rent controls, Oxford Don A. J. P. Taylor got so angry that he turned his back on the cameras, refused to utter a word for the rest of the program...