Word: arabicize
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For years Harry Lev has been confounding his competitors as much as he confused the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He can speak seven languages (English, Polish, Hebrew, German, Yiddish, Arabic and Russian), but he can neither read nor write English. He organized his own capmaking firm with $500 capital in...
¶ Arabic will be the official language, but French will be the "working language."
Sense of the House. Postwar Oxford in the early '20s found mustachioed Captain Eden a serious young man, diffident and withdrawn. "He was one of the quiet ones," a college servant recalls. Eden collected modern paintings, walked off with first class honors in Persian and Arabic. On one occasion...
"It would seem, therefore, to be of some significance . . . that the first letter of the alphabet is Alpha, the Hebrew Aleph, 'a Bull' . . . Scanning down through the other letters of the Hebrew alphabet which have names with recognized meanings in the Hebrew, we find that they also deal...
A waxing moon silvered the green hillside fields and sand dunes that make up the Gaza strip - the 6-mile by 30-mile sliver of Palestine crowded with 200,000 Arab refugees which Egypt rules under the armistice. Captain Mahmoud Ahmed Sadek, commander of a 35-man garrison guarding the...