khamsin

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Judges in some Arab countries take a lenient attitude toward crimes committed during the khamsin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Additional tests have shown that their conditions are aggravated, not directly caused by the khamsin.

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

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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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The khamsin blew in hot, sandy spurts, and lulled; then came again in hotter, more shrivelling bursts "From Hell!" thought the troopers, one and all.

From The Tale of a Trooper by Mackenzie, Clutha N. (Clutha Nantes)