Word: arabization
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...same time, Chasdi decried Arab unwillingness to negotiate directly with Israel, but hoped a grandiose program for Middle Eastern development would ease tension in the area...
Chasdi accused the Arab states of "swimming against the stream of international relations of our times" in refusing to enter direct peace negotiations. He felt this seemed to indicate that they were harboring hostile intentions...
...shabby old woman, her hair tucked beneath a scarf in the strict Orthodox manner, circulated sadly among the studious rabbis who live close by the Arab sector of Jerusalem. To each she told the same tear-stained story-two relatives of hers, a man & wife, were shortly to be put to death by the Americans...
Those Old Arabs. Sam Katzman, a bouncy, bulb-shaped 51, has his own formula for keeping his earning record perfect. His five sound stages (at Columbia's dingy old subsidiary studio) are usually buzzing with assorted pygmies, giants, animals (wild and tame), half-dressed women (wild & wild-eyed), cowboys and pâpier-maché interplanetary vehicles. With these props Sam can roll into a picture at the drop of a dollar. Says he: "We don't get stories. We get titles and then write stories around them or to fit them. For instance, we had this title...
Comfortable Burnooses. While the occupation lasted, living was relatively comfortable. The Franks in Outremer-which the Crusading territory was called -adopted luxuries of the East, e.g., linen bedsheets, running water, which were unknown in their cold castles in Flanders and Normandy. They levied tolls on Arab traders, enjoyed Arab music, ate Arab food, and dressed themselves in turbans and burnooses when off-duty. But the climate was unhealthy for northerners, and men who survived the battlefield often succumbed to strange tropical diseases. Most Crusaders died young...