Word: ali
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the British Government. On the prickly problem of Pakistan (a separate Moslem State) the Working Committee had already hedged: Congress would oppose partition, but, if unsuccessful, it would not compel seceding Moslems to stay inside a Hindu India. From the Moslem League and its canny, cagey president, Mohamed Ali Jinnah, came no comment. He was too busy preparing his campaign in the northwest, heart of the hypothetical Moslem State...
Both Britain and India wanted a decision. The Raj lifted the ban on Mohandas Gandhi's All-India National Congress, restored its funds, was about to free its members still in jail. The Moslem League's president, shrewd, suave Mohamed Ali Jinnah, was already campaigning in the Punjab, heart of the hypothetical Pakistan state. The Congress Party prepared its biggest campaign. Jawaharlal Nehru (see BOOKS) and other leaders would make a platform tour that would take in towns and villages in all the voting provinces...
...present effort to give India self-government had failed. Of the parties represented, all but the Moslem League had handed him lists of prospective members of the proposed Executive Council. The predominantly Hindu Congress party had been willing to take office. But, in the person of its President Mohamed Ali Jinnah, the Moslem League had rejected Wavell's plan...
Hardest hit by a recent rash of parties (on the week ends, naturally) have been our married brethren, whose role of gentlemen in waiting, for you wife to escape such well-known Ali Babas as Joe Neil, "Terrible Tom" Mullen, and smooth-talking J. F. Stonewall Smith...
Recipe. In Agra, India, Mohammed Mian Ali, III, father of 19 sons, prepared to marry for the 13th time, gave his recipe for happiness: "Read Omar Khayyam...