Word: alis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctored stories themselves had little effect. Councilmogul Al Vellucci, however, did sell his yacht upon reading about the Charles River parking lot. Balthazar Ali Khan called in to report his name was spelled Belshazzar. "Mene, mene, tekel upharsin," he warned...
BAKHTIYAR ALI KHAN...
Shirley Temple's Storybook (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Ali Baba, after all these generations, still has a fine time wresting the treasure from the Forty Thieves...
...time when Cronin graduated from B.C., the U.S.S.R. was claiming that "Ali Baba and his forty thieves were still at work in the Mid-East," and that about half of its Lend-Lease allotments were being carried off by stealthy Arabs. Cronin went to work for the Documentation Branch of the Persian Gulf Command in Teheran, where he dealt extensively with the Russians. He had been educated at Catholic schools, and found that the Russian's actions "were the antithesis of everything I had ever been taught." At a time when most of the people with whom he worked thought...
...clear to Mirza, and to most observers, that since the death in 1948 of founding father Mohammed Ali Jinnah, that is to say almost since its inception, Pakistan has been "going to the dogs." More conspicuous than the lack of reform movement was the lack of an atmosphere where anyone would even take the idea of reform seriously. Fearing a "bloody revolution" from below, Mirza convinced Ayub that it was necessary to replace the inept democratic regime with a "benign martial law to assist the civil power to clean up this mess...