Word: abdul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...controls": "Uvani," a 19th Century Arab, and "Abdul Latif," a Persian physician who lived at the time of the Crusades...
...overstuffed armchair. The tough, aging (64) little man wore a simple black silk abbaya (flowing robe) with a gleaming white shirtfront, a white and gold headdress, and the gold chain which in Arab countries takes the place of a crown. Near him were his two sons and his kinsman Abdul Ilah, Regent of Iraq (which Abdullah dreams of drawing into a Greater Syria federation...
...Indians came up one of Simla's highest, loveliest, fir-green hills to the viceregal lodge. Jawaharlal Nehru rode on a brown-and-white-spotted Yarkand pony; fierce-eyed Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel and goateed Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad each came in a ricksha pulled by four runners; tall, bearded Khan Abdul Ghaffar came on his own long legs; Mohamed Ali Jinnah and his Moslem League delegation in an ancient, khaki-colored Humber sedan...
...Cabinet Mission still talked with India's leaders, a meeting was held in the courtyard of Anglo-Arabic College across Delhi from the Viceroy's palace. Green and white banners flaunted unacademic slogans: "Pakistan or die," "We are determined to fight." The speeches were equally inflammatory. Said Abdul Qaiyum Khan from the North-West Frontier Province: "I hope the Moslem nation will strike swiftly before [a Hindu] government can be set up in this country. . . . The Moslems will have no alternative but to take out their swords." Said Sirdar Shaukat Hyat Khan of the Punjab (which furnishes more...
...businessmen have put up about $10,000,000 to push a $200,000,000 claim. If Palestine loses, the jiftlik will be divided 40% for the investors, 60% for the progeny of Abdul the Damned...