Word: khans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pakistan, upon its creation in 1947, began to loosen some of the old restrictions on women: purdah lost ground, women got a couple of seats (which they still hold) in the parliament. But the mullahs of Islam have reasserted the old customs; the Begum Liaquat Ali Khan, widow of the assassinated Premier and once a militant suffragist, has been forced into a quiet life, and the wife of the new Premier hides uncomplainingly in strictest purdah...
Novelist Thomas Costain has taught history to more people outside the classroom than any professional historian has ever taught inside. His swashbuckling sagas, The Black Rose and The Moneyman, not only gave readers a bowing acquaintance with the courts of Kublai Khan and medieval France, but made Costain himself the contemporary king of historical romance. To the fans who have bought nearly 5,000,000 copies of his eight books, King Costain can do no wrong, but the sad truth about his latest novel, The Silver Chalice, is that it rarely swashes and regularly buckles...
...Khan, whose expensive hobbies are entertaining beautiful women and racing fine horses, made hotel reservations for a trip to the U.S. to shop at the annual sale of thoroughbred yearlings at Saratoga Springs next month...
...levies as high as 80% or 90% on his crops, the zamindar could seize his land (or his daughter) in payment. The zamindars gradually became the landholders, the peasants mere sharecroppers. "The most creditable products of zamindari," wrote the London Economist, "have been Rabindranath Tagore, the poet, Liaquat Ali Khan, the Prime Minister, and the Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagram, the cricketer . . . The majority have been as vicious as Thackeray's Lord Steyne, as idle as Jane Austen's Mr. Bennett, and as drunken as a Surtees squire...
...help in the Berlin airlift. Ten hours later, Seaboard's was the first airlift plane to reach Germany from the U.S. A week after Korea, Seaboard hit the unfamiliar Pacific airlift route from San Francisco to Tokyo. In its scramble for other cargoes, Seaboard has shuttled the Aga Khan's race horses across the Atlantic, flown German war brides to the U.S., elephants from Siam to New York. A Turkish manufacturer ships sausage skins from Teheran, thereby outfoxing hijackers who raided his camel caravans...