Word: egyptian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every such bargain there is a concealed political string. To pay for Communist arms and aid, Egypt's Nasser has mortgaged much of his cotton crop for years ahead. By reselling this cotton at cut prices to Western textile manufacturers (including West Germans), the Communists have driven Egyptian cotton exporters out of much of the European market, have thus deprived Egypt of a major source of foreign exchange and reduced her ability to import Western goods. In the first half of 1958, Soviet-bloc exports to Egypt were more than 2½ times West Germany...
...drive to the East. Partly because of the poor quality of 30 locomotives which Nasser bought from Communist Hungary two years ago, partly by agreeing to accept some of the price in cotton instead of cash, West Germany's Henschel Works fortnight ago snatched an Egyptian State Railways order for 108 diesel-electric locomotives away from both Russian and U.S. bidders. And in the Ruhr several major industrial firms are mulling over plans for a "Mideast pool" which would merge their commercial influence and intelligence services in a single network of "contact offices." Aware that such devices make West...
...oldest piece of literature in Houghton is a fragment of Egyptian hieroglyphic material which experts date somewhere between 1500 and 2000 B.C. Houghton does not own much really ancient material, but its collection of medieval work, much of it in the form of medieval manuscripts, is particularly strong...
...Khet, but the pink alabaster sarcophagus within proved empty. Why empty? Goneim thought it was intended for the Sed Festival (a ceremony which supposedly reinvigorated the old Pharaohs) or as a tomb for the ka, the invisible double who went along everywhere as the secret sharer of an ancient Egyptian's life and death...
...ease his heavy dependence on Moscow, was perhaps one result of the Communist offensive against Nasser in Syria and Iraq that the Russians may not have expected. Nasser has belatedly begun to move against the Communists. He has arrested several hundred of them in Syria and Egypt, including some Egyptian newsmen, though this news has significantly not appeared in the Egyptian press...