Word: hadjis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father, the late Hadji Mehmet, was the most important and feared man of the district. Galloping horsemen slowed down when they passed our house at dawn so as not to wake Hadji Mehmet. Roosters crowed in the name of Hadji Mehmet. But even he died. Nothing is forever. When I was a child, there were seven of us in the village who went to school to learn to read and write from the hoca. I was the richest of the seven, and all I had was my dress and a pair of red slippers. Today even I am not satisfied...
...central Java, quickly fell. Dutch paratroopers and airborne forces seized Magowo airfield, outside the capital, and invaded the city. The action was so fast that the Dutch were able to arrest the republic's top leaders, including President Soekarno, Premier Mohammed Hatta, ex-Premier Sutan Sjahrir, Foreign Minister Hadji Agus Salim, and General Sudirman, commander of the republic's 300,000 ill-armed troops. The Dutch announced that they had only three wounded, none killed...
...royal visit enjoyable. Official introductions over, Trans-Jordan's King and Turkey's President drove along Ankara's tree-lined main avenue, past granite Government buildings and cheering throngs to the presidential villa for a quiet evening of chess. Next day there were prayers at the Hadji Bayram Mosque and a state dinner at Premier Recep Peker...
Heads Off. Promptly Iranians forgot their anti-British grievances. For the rest of the night they ranged the streets bent on murdering their age-old enemies, the Arabs. Wealthy, pro-British Hussein Gazi, local Arab leader, was clubbed to the pavement, then beheaded on the spot. Sheik Hadji Haddat and his wife were snatched from their car and burned alive in a bakery oven...