khamsin

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The shaky cease-fire shifted attention back to Lebanon's complicated political situation, which was about as impenetrable as the khamsin.

From Time Magazine Archive

These victims have few specific complaints beyond an extreme sensitivity to the rapid temperature changes caused by the khamsin.

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Moving up out of the desert each spring and fall, the khamsin is an ill wind that blows no one in the Middle East any good.

From Time Magazine Archive

The German drive, which had swept across Libya as fast and as hot as the desert wind called khamsin, was apparently aimed straight for Alexandria.

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Alexandria on our return was dimmed in the heat and choking in the sand clouds of a khamsin.

From The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 by Morrison, F. L.