Word: hashimi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Palimpsest. In Teheran, after being questioned intensively about dealing in opium, Hadi Hashimi allowed the narcotics squad investigators to kiss his Koran as an apology for bothering him, was hauled off to jail when 375 grams of opium were discovered in a hole in the book's pages...
...from a satin throne and said in a loud, clear voice: "I swear by God to abide by the constitution and to be loyal to the people." Outside, guns hammered 101 salvos into the dusty hills, and a legion bagpipe band swirled music. Hussein Ibn Talal Ibn Abdullah el Hashimi, that day turned 18, was now Jordan's third King...