Word: khans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After an 80-yard runback of a pass interception in the second period by Ted Briggs, Bucky Khan plunged three yards for Lowell's first score. Bob Lown swept around end for the extra point. With less than a minute to play, the Bellboys, trailing by 13 to 7, scored as Khan circled end on a 30-yard sweep for his second touchdown. Bruce White bucked through the middle for the game clinching extra point...
...whole Moslem sea tossed and rolled last week, lapping at the granite of the old order. British troops were in action to stand off Egypt's violent demand for the Suez and Sudan. Moslem Pakistan and the West were jarred by the assassination of Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan. Iran, through the United Nations' reluctance to intervene, won a dubious victory over Britain, salving pride but refining no oil. Neighboring Iraq wanted to revise its treaty of alliance with Britain. The wave of Moroccan resistance to the French gained new matter from the other waves of nationalism breaking...
...hundred thousand people had come to Rawalpindi's broad green Company Gardens to hear Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan. Liaquat was in troubled territory: the Northwest frontier is full of tribal jealousies; on one side Afghanistan disputes its borders, on the other lies rich Kashmir, held by India and coveted by Pakistan...
...town of Rawalpindi, on the precarious frontier where India and Pakistan contend for the rich prize of Kashmir, an assassin's bullets rang out this week. They hit and fatally wounded Liaquat Ali Khan, 56, the chubby, able and moderate Prime Minister of Pakistan as he was making a speech to a crowded meeting. His assassin, a Moslem fanatic of a sect which favors holy war against India, was reportedly "torn to pieces" by the crowd...
...independent Kazaks went on pitching their flannel tents, eating only meat, playing polo with the inflated skins of whole sheep and 200 men on a team, proclaiming allegiance to Allah alone, and generally thumbing their noses at the march of civilization, as they had since the days of Genghis Khan...