Word: allah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prayer to Allah. Different answers came from every streetcorner and every newspaper in all the world's cities. Some people predicted inevitable peace. In Germany's new capital city of Bonn, Professor Otto Hahn, one of the discoverers of nuclear fission, who won a Nobel prize in chemistry in 1944, argued agreeably: "If both the United States and Russia have it, there will...
...Sweden, Stockholm's Svenska Dagbladet wondered tearfully "how a little country can hold itself alone in an evil world." In Istanbul, the daily Cumhuriyet sighed: "All we can do is pray to Allah that he grant some wisdom to humanity...
...into Peace? In both the Old City and the New City, Jewish and Arab soldiers chatted amiably back & forth across narrow strips of no man's land. One Arab Legion captain, lifting a glass of tea, called out: "May Allah grant that the end of the war come before my next glass of tea!" Near the Jaffa Gate, unarmed Legionnaires sat dangling their legs over the wall of the Old City. In the streets below, Arab soldiers were dancing, without swords, a Bedouin sword dance. Jewish and Arab civilians even staged a football match. The Israeli team...
...politicians said, "Wait." Farida had sworn to remarry. If she had a son by another man that would look bad for Farouk. He waited. But last week, as the news of Britain's princeling reverberated around the world, he could wait no longer. "The will of Allah," he announced through his ministers, "directed the hearts of King Farouk and Queen Farida to a desire for divorce in spite of all the regret they feel...
...generations been Hinduism's most popular hymn. It was a favorite with Gandhi, who believed that mere repetition of the name of the god Ram was an effective means of banishing fear. Gandhi added two lines of his own to the song: "Ishvar [Hindustani for God] and Allah are both thy names; give wisdom to all." Gandhi encouraged the use of the amended version to promote Hindu-Moslem harmony...