Word: torus
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...Michael Cahaly's life centers around the remote past of Syria. When he talks of its history his voice loses its matter-of-fact quality and he waves his ever present cigar in wide, animated circles. "Once, Syria," he said, "was the old Syria that went from the Torus Mountains to the Sinai Desert. . . . Damascus was once the thinking brain of the whole Omyad Empire. . . And then they began cutting it up. . . But even the new Damascus is very, very beautiful. As beautiful as Paris or anywhere...