Word: pak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portuguese colony. Through Porta do Cêrco, the massive, yellow brick border gate, poured panicky peasants and deserting Nationalist soldiers, clamoring for haven from the advancing Reds. Black sentries from Mozambique allowed them to pass, first stripping the deserters of weapons. By week's end, over Pak-sha-leang, a Chinese fort overlooking the single road into Macao, the gold-starred Red flag of Communist China waved ominously...
...Midwesterners tend to obscure their vowels by pronouncing their R's too heavily," Packard parried, but he admitted that the local "pak-yu-ca-in-Havud-Yad" variation ignores the "R" too much...
...Pakistan, a dream of Moslem students before it became a political issue, was originally concocted from P for Punjab, A for the Afghans of the North-West Frontier, K for Kashmir, S for Sind, "pure" in Tan from Urdu, with "stan" Baluchistan. means "Pak" also "Land of the means Pure." Last week the League convention defined it to embrace Punjab, Sind, Baluchistan, North-West Frontier Province (all in northwestern In dia), Assam and most of Bengal (in the north east). Jinnah has even advocated a thousand-mile corridor across Hindustan to connect the two parts...
...probably tell umeealik, the boss man, all about it. If the inspector decides to bring the guilty family down to Moose Factory on James Bay for trial that will be fine, they will get a ride in an airplane and a chance to see a whole street of "igloo-pak," the white men's houses...
Artillery on both sides of the Mekong poured shells into the mountains, jungle and straw-thatched villages on the other side. Thai planes raided the Indo-Chinese towns of Pak-sé, Suvarnakhet. French planes bombed the Thai towns of Prachinburi, Aranya. Military communiqués reported fierce engagements in the borderland forests, casualties mounting as high as 600 in a single clash. Both sides claimed victory, but after four days of fighting the French authorities admitted that their troops had retreated 50 miles, and Bangkok announced that the Thai flag had been raised over Cambodia...