Word: mogul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your article claims the Peacock Throne to have been taken from the Persians by the Turks in 1514, and brought to Istanbul. In 1514, that famous throne did not even exist. The Peacock Throne was installed by Shah Jahan, Mogul Emperor of Taj Mahal fame, at Delhi. It was carried off by the Persian invader Nadir Shah in 1739, and now stands in the Gulistan Palace, a museum in Teheran, Iran...
...dozen of the Bomba. the Jungle Boy films). When they decided to go independent, they "shook a little" with apprehension, Walter remembers. But they made $5,000,000 in their first year-which goes to show that in the new Hollywood, anyone can be a movie mogul with a little luck and a lot of popcorn...
Urdu, which is a Turkish word for lashkar (army), developed under the influence of the Mogul kings some 400 years ago as a sort of lingua franca, originating in the northern parts of the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. Later during the centuries, it spread very rapidly throughout the subcontinent and became the principal language of the people. For the first time in its history, Urdu has been declared an official language (in Pakistan, pop. 95 million)-the other official language being Bengali. The Urdu script is Arabic, written from right to left...
After staving off deportation since 1953 (the Justice Department could not find a nation that would take him), U.S. Mafia Mogul Carlos Marcello walked into the New Orleans office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, was peremptorily handcuffed and hustled to the airport, was Guatemala-bound before he could phone his wife or pick up a toothbrush. Last week, while the American Civil Liberties Union attacked the "to talitarian tactics" of the Immigration agents, the Internal Revenue Service slapped a $835,000 tax lien on the squat mobster, charged him with leaving the country without a permit...
...combination of mogul geology and sun chemistry make a mediocre skier without edge control into a magician. The hill becomes a slippery sandbox of rhythm in the frosty intensity of late winter afternoon. But crossed tips can make a four-stitch salad out of a novice leg. The end: the skier looks out of a mountain urinal at the back of the city...