Word: baluchistan
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...Gulf squashed Iran's minuscule Navy, sinking two sloops, capturing seven Axis ships. Indian troops landed at Bandar Shahpur and, after a brief brush, made sure of the world's largest oil-cracking plant, at Abadan. Not needed were more Indian troops poised on the border of Baluchistan, where shaving the head and varnishing the skull is the poor man's pith helmet...
...east are Afghanistan, a hair-triggered zone of worry to British India, and Baluchistan, western gateway to British India itself. Whichever warring side gains a foothold in Iran can jump off into any of these vital sectors...
Uncounted thousands of the quick and the dead still lay last week in the ruins of Quetta in British Baluchistan, smeared by earthquake last fortnight (TIME, June 10). Against the menace of fire, flood, jackals, looters and cholera, a British division surrounded the town and dug frantically in the ruins. But when a rumor spread that the British planned to dynamite and abandon Quetta, natives set up a mighty howl, pointed out that in other earthquakes men had been dug out alive as long as a week afterward...
Prime fear of the British last week was that the superstitious natives would blame the whole thing on the British Raj, for the shaken area was entirely within the northern square of Baluchistan which Britain rules as a territory. And the ancient citadel of the Khan of Kalat, friend of the British, lay in ruins, as though for a judgment...
...Museum announced completion of the drawing, scaled to one-fifth life size. The creature was 30 ft. long, stood 17 ft. 9 in. high at the shoulder, had a tough loose-folded hide, long legs, thick neck, small, blunt head, enormous incisor teeth. A vegetarian, Baluchitherium ("Beast of Baluchistan") probably weighed 20.000 lb., ate 500 lb. of herbage...