Word: khyber
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...Kalgan, their prize of the civil war, the Communists can put their backs against Soviet-dominated Mongolia and Siberia, their faces toward Manchuria and North China. The old city guards the Great Wall at Nankow Pass, which is to China what the Khyber Pass is to India...
...tool industry, the whole fertile Ukraine-and 6,000,000 casualties. The Allies had traded men and miles for time, and they were closed to the ragged edge. That September of 1942 the Germans stood at the Nile and the Volga. The British were digging tank traps in the Khyber Pass, to keep the Germans out of India...
...their months in India there were two high moments for the young, hero-worshipping Forster. They dined at the mess of the Royal West Kents at the Khyber Pass. The young officers in their bright uniforms got pleasantly drunk, asked each other: "I say, will he put you in a book...
...Century B.C. After him came Alexander of Macedonia, Antiochus III of Syria, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane and Baber. Centuries later came the British; then the Russians; finally the Germans and Japanese. Last week, clutching his brief case in a car that pitched like a camel over the boulder-strewn Khyber Pass, came the American. He was balding, professorial Cornelius van Henert Engert, U.S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Mohammed Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan...
What worried the British more than usual this time was the suspicion that the Fakir, although a fanatical religious leader, has been "encouraged" to rebellion by atheistic Soviet Russia. This, the British knew, was no time to have serious trouble near the Khyber Pass. While they hunted the Fakir, they also started building good military roads right up to the Afghanistan border...