Word: karakul
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Stewed Fruit. Irked by this Pakhtoon-foolery, Pakistan last week effectively closed the historic Khyber Pass, through which passes 80% of Afghanistan's external trade, including shipments to the U.S. of pistachio nuts, wool, and karakul fur (which becomes "Persian lamb" on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue). At the pass, Pakistani customs stopped grape, peach and pomegranate-laden trucks and told them to await clearance from Karachi-which, they blandly confided, would "take some time." While the truckers fretted, the fruit rotted...
South-West Africa is a part-desert, part-fertile country with barely one inhabitant for each of its 317,725 square miles: 38,000 whites and 294,000 blacks. But diamonds, minerals, karakul pelts and farm products make it a valuable property. Germany grabbed it in 1885 and broke the power of the native tribes by a series of savage murders. South Africa seized it from Germany during World War I, and received a League of Nations mandate...