Word: mats
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...army game. The pieces represented the four elements of the Indian army: chariots, elephants, cavalry and infantry; they evolved through the centuries into rooks, bishops, knights and pawns. In its travels, the Hindi word rajah, for king, became shah in Persian, which led to the Arabic phrase shah mat, meaning the king is dead, from which the term checkmate is derived...
Fiddler on the Roof--Cheri Complex. Mat...
Fiddler on the Roof--Cheri Complex. Mat...
...Maltese Falcon, a 1941 Bogart classic. Brattle Theatre. 6:15, 9:35. With the 1932 I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang. 8, weekend mat...
...Australia, too, the welcome mat is being pulled back a bit. Nationalist suspicion was brought to a head when ITT, internationally somewhat notorious because of its political troubles at home, tried to buy Frozen Foods Industries of Australia Ltd. The Australian Cabinet last week hurriedly decided in principle to restrict foreign takeovers, though formal rules are unlikely to be framed for months...