Word: nadir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grew too hot last week for gleaming-eyed, white-tusked King Habibullah, the savage onetime bandit who last winter wrested Afghanistan's throne from weak, well-meaning little King Amanullah (TIME, Jan. 28). All through the summer, Usurper Habibullah has been harassed by the lean, ruthless, white-chinned Nadir Khan, ill-famed for boiling his captured enemies in oil (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week Nadir converged three armies of overwhelming might upon Kabul. Prudent Habibullah fled in an airplane to escape being French-fried. Without resistance the city fell. Since victorious Nadir was once a general in the service...
...ghosts about Kabul last week, afraid of losing their ears, anxious not to be blown into bloody fragments from a cannon mouth. Their bandit-king, fierce, white-toothed, grinning Habibullah Khan, was in one of his wild rages. For weeks he has been stubbornly defending Kabul against the potent Nadir Khan, another ruthless seeker of the crown lost last winter by deposed King Amanullah, who is now in bitter exile in Italy (TIME, July 15). Last week Habibullah heard that one of his favorite generals had just been captured by the Nadir Khan. Cringing, the messenger gibbered to the flashing...
French-frying one's generals is an insult no potent bandit king can tolerate. Fierce King Habibullah therefore decreed that any of his own subjects who should publicly utter the name of execrable "Nadir Khan" should...
...expanding as a background and solidly inlaid with sapphires, rubies, emeralds, pearls, so as to simulate exactly the plumage of a peacock. Originally it stood at Delhi, now the capital of British India, once the seat of the Mogul Emperors, for whom it was made. In 1739 the invading Nadir Shah of Persia carried off this trinket, valued at 30 million dollars...
Between these two groups stood Mr. Baldwin, vainly attempting to mollify both and save his Cabinet. When everything seemed at the nadir of hopelessness, the King summoned him to Buckingham Palace and was reported to have informed his Premier that, if he valued his advice, he would see to it that the Admiralty's demands were met. This was all very well. More ships meant more money and Mr. Churchill was holding the purse strings and seemed determined to keep on holding them. How could he induce the Chancellor to accede to the King's wishes. He confided...