Word: harun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smiled and said, 'It is yours.' " Unimpressed by its popular name, Pig Island, Wright promptly rechristened it Edena (for the Garden of Eden). He soon noted an unancient problem: newly prosperous Baghdad is rapidly filling up with automobiles. His solution is in the earthen ziggurats that Harun al-Rashid used in the 8th century to keep out invaders. In Wright's case the massive embankments serve as traffic roundabouts and parking areas to keep pedestrian ways free of traffic and open for fountains, gardens and walks...
...roads and bridges. Its new $30 million refinery provides Iraq with gasoline at 15? a gallon (though heavy taxes lift it up to 29? a gallon). Ancient, reeking Baghdad (pop. 550,000), which bears almost no resemblance to the flower-decked Arabian Nights pleasure dome that the Caliph Harun al-Rashid (786-809) shared so opulently with 2,000,000 subjects, is getting low-cost housing, a sewage system, some badly needed modern streets, and the promise of room to expand now that the Tigris can be curbed...
...people dwelt in plenty and exported wheat to Rome. Now the east bank cannot even support its 400,000 people, who get along only because London, for strategic reasons, ships in ?8,000,000 sterling a year to Jordan. Mesopotamia (now Iraq), in the fabled caliphate of Harun al-Rashid (786-809), supported 30 million people; Bagdad had a population of 2,000,000, and 30,000 public baths. Today, all Iraq barely supports 5,000,000 people, and last week a New York Times reporter described much of Bagdad as "a festering slum." An entire civilization once flourished...
...Calcutta's Sealdah railroad station, ragged, stupefied and sick. In spite of efforts of relief workers there were 70 new cases of cholera, typhoid and dysentery every day. A volunteer made the rounds taking down depositions from refugees. One emaciated little man dictated haltingly: "My name is Harun Donath Pal. I lived in the village of Subhodpur. My house has been burned and my two sisters and my aunt are lost. My property has been looted. I have nothing and I am helpless." He signed the deposition with his thumbprint...