Word: nadir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national university. Credit for its gradual civilization must go to three kings: 1) the chuckleheaded Amanullah, who built racetracks, Roman arches, cinemas, and tried to force his outraged subjects into trousers until they rose up and chased him from the country (TIME, June 23, 1929 et ante) ; 2) Nadir Shah whose more tactful program was cut short by assassination last year; 3) Mohammed Zahir Khan, Nadir Shah's son, who is concentrating on the practical business of building up an efficient modern army...
...four years Afghanistan's hero has been her King, bespectacled, spade-bearded, ruthless Mohammed Nadir Khan. In 1929 Afghanistan was a shambles. Nadir's nephew King Amanullah, whose Western reforms so angered Afghans, had fled the capital (TIME. Dec. 24, 1928 et seq.). On the throne sat bloody Bacha Sakao, an upstart chief whose name meant "The Water Boy." Backed by the royal family's bribes of the Durani, Uncle Nadir marched on Kabul. He caught one of the Water Boy's favorite generals and his staff, boiled them all in vegetable oil. Water Boy picked...
...evening His Majesty was leaving his harem. Too late he saw Death awaiting him. A man shot three bullets into him before, spare and powerful, Nadir Khan stumbled bleeding upon his assailant. He got the feel of the man in his hands but the other had a knife. The King's spectacles fell off his nose and shattered on the pavement. As the cold steel went deep in him. Nadir Khan fell down dead...
Through Afghanistan, through all the bazaars of India ran contradictory rumors that the assassin had been an agent of Russia, of Amanullah, of one of Nadir's brothers. The Afghan Government branded a "low-class Afghan," one Abdul Khalliq, as the assassin, assured the Afghan Minister in London that "everything is absolutely all right...
...Nadir Khan was hardly cold before his supporters clapped the crown on the head of his only son, Mohammed Zahir Khan, 19. French boys who went to school with him in Paris called the new king "a good fellow and a good horseman...