Word: noon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...October 7, General Ayub and President Iskander Mirza deposed Premier Firoz Khan Noon, abolished the constitution, suspended legislatures and political parties, declared martial law, and took over the government of Pakistan. Acting barely four months before Pakistan's first nation-wide elections were to take place, they accomplished the revolution without bloodshed or even, as General Ayub observed, "head knocking...
...deposed administration. Describing his rule under President Iskander Mirza as "a benign martial law to assist the civil power clean up this mess," the General offhandedly announced that the maximum penalty for concealing food stocks is death. The results were awe-inspiring. Ex-Premier Malik Firoz Khan Noon, said the government, admitted that he was holding 3,000 tons of wheat in his private warehouse. Two other ex-ministers hurriedly told the government that they had wheat hoards of 6,250 tons and 1,500 tons respectively. Former Defense Minister Mohammed Ayub Khuhro languished in jail on black-market charges...
...searing barrens beyond the Hill of the Demons in the French Cameroons. The demons did not appear personally, but the place was hell, all right. By day the temperature stood as high as 140°, at night it never sank below 90°. Work was impossible after noon, and the film had to be stored in cracked ice. On top of the heat there were insects, malaria, dysentery. By the third day, cast and crew were dropping like flies. In 4½ months of shooting, 30 doctors handled 960 sick calls. Eddie Albert had sunstroke and spent several days...
File 7 (ABC, 11:30-12 noon). A quiz show with not one penny at stake; Johns Hopkins Assistant Professor Dr. Eliezer Naddor, an expert in the occult occupation of solving puzzles, will run four university students through some seemingly impossible riddles, then explain where and how they goofed...
...undefeated freshman football team will face Cheshire Academy today at noon on the freshman field...