Word: mir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ousted in Azerbaijan: Premier Mir Dzhafar Bagirov, one of four alternate members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This was the highest-ranking arrest since Beria...
Director Sweeney canvassed collections as far afield as Florida and California. A collector in Fort Lauderdale sent Joan Miró's Dancer Listening to Organ Music in Gothic Cathedral; a San Franciscan contributed a sculpture by Britain's Henry Moore. From Switzerland, Norway and The Netherlands came such prizes as Henri Rousseau's The Hungry Lion, Edvard Munch's The Cry, and Marc Chagall's Homage to Apollinaire...
...Atheneum reached out for more English landscapes and portraiture, samples of Dutch, French and Italian masters. A generation ago, thanks in part to a million-dollar bequest from Hartford Banker Frank C. Sumner, the directors began sampling modern art as well, e.g., Mondrian, Dali, Picasso, Mir...
Ever since 1936, when someone splashed water on him during a rowboat trip in Madras Harbor, His Exalted Highness Rustam-I-Dauran, Arastu-I-Zaman, Lieutenant General, Muzaffar-ul-Mulk WalMamalik, Nawab Mir Osman Ali Khan Bahadur, Fateh Jung, Nizam-ud-Daula, Nizam-ul-Mulk, Asaf Jah, G.C.S.L, G.B.E., Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar, had kept his vow to stay inside his own territory of Hyderabad. But the Nizam, one of the world's richest and closest-fisted men, relented last week to attend a national conference of Indian regional governors and princely heads of states in New Delhi...
...kronk," was the shy answer. "Du kenst mir fixen? [I'm sick...