Word: malik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Twelfth Century Persian mathematician, court astronomer for Sultan Malik-Shah, epigrammatist and classmate of Hassan ben Sabbah ("The Old Man of the Mountain"), who founded the fanatical hashish-smoking Persian Assassins...
...Charles Malik, Lebanese delegate to U.N., offered a little suggestion to his fellow statesmen: do not forget "the individual human person." Mused Philosopher Malik: "Who is this person? This person ... is the living, dying man, who suffers and rebels, is scared, makes mistakes . . . hesitates . . . gossips . . . even blushes and laughs. . . . This being ... is in danger of being drowned and obscured by ... systems. . . . We need champions of the mind and spirit...
...Rule," and flew in substantial troop reinforcements, did the carnage begin to abate in the Punjab. By then, uncountable hundreds were dead, hundreds more were injured, and thousands of buildings had been smashed or burned. The riots came in a moment of governmental vacuum, after the resignation of Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana's coalition government. The issue was purely and simply Pakistan. The Moslems shouted "Pakistan Zindabad!" (Up with Pakistan!). The Hindus and Sikhs answered back: "Pakistan Murdabad!" (Death to Pakistan!). Then the knives began to flash...
...stooge in the Punjab Province coalition government, Bhim Sen Sachar, abruptly ordered suppression of the League's "National Guard," arrested several prominent Punjab Moslem leaders. Moderate Punjabi Prime Minister Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana tried to remedy the damage, but the Moslems delightedly courted further arrest. Jinnah screamed "uncalled-for aggression," declared that the League could never join Hindus in a unified Assembly, asked Britain to dissolve the body. The Chamber of Indian Princes also slapped at the Congress Party, indicating that Moslem members might join with Jinnah in opposing Indian unification. The princes were sore at what...
Philosophized Lebanon's husky, furrow-browed Charles Habib Malik (Ph.D., Harvard) : "As Aristotle said ... a horse runs -it does not converse. A house does not make love-it is for living in." Malik's question: What is U.N. good...