Word: egyptian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago Britain's BBC barred hypnotists from television (TIME, Dec. 30, 1946) because of a private test during which four of six BBC staffers went to sleep. In Paris this spring, Egyptian Fakir Tahra Bey allegedly hypnotized part of his studio audience and some of his countrywide listeners over a Radio Diffusion Français program...
Rich materials and such new shades as "cigar brown," "seaweed rose," "shrimp pink" and "soft sulphur yellow" helped to create a tizzy of fashionmakers' incoherence. Wrote the N.E.A.'s Rosette Hargrove of one collection (by Carven): "Egyptian inspiration stressing spindled, high-bosomed princess line enhanced by encrusted boleros with contrasting yokes of mummy wrappings and circular embroideries...
Shortly after noon one day last week, a white DC-3 with U.N. markings carried the last members of Mediator Count Bernadotte's staff from Tel Aviv. A minute and a half later, Tel Aviv's air-raid siren shrilled as an Egyptian reconnaissance plane flew over. War had returned to Palestine...
...fear of such outbreaks or oppressive government measures, Jewish colonies in Egypt have been donating money to the government as anxious proof of their opposition to Zionism. Last week the Egyptian government announced that Alexandria's Jews had contributed $80,000, Cairo's $160,000, to the Egyptian "Soldiers' Welfare Fund." With the bundle of checks came a message: "Greetings to Egypt and her army, and an expression of loyalty to King Farouk...
...Outside Tel Aviv harbor last week, in the war's first naval engagement, an Israeli corvette and planes gave battle to an Egyptian corvette and some small transports. The Egyptian force withdrew...