Word: persianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...luncheon for visiting Sardar Mohammed Daoud, fierce-eyed, austere Prime Minister of neutral Afghanistan, while the U.S. firmed up plans to give Afghanistan $26 million more in aid. The money will be used to fix the roads so that the U.S.S.R.'s landlocked southern neighbor can ship its Persian lamb pelts to free-world markets...
...family life: "Better to have a linoleum rug so kids can bring their friends home than a Persian carpet they can't set foot on," philosophized Texas Pastor Fordyce Detamore. Each family, he said, needs a "social secretary...
More than 2,000 years ago. in a campaign against King Artaxerxes II, a force of Greek troops was trapped deep in the Persian Empire. Surrounded by hostile armies, the Greeks had no hope of reinforcement and no allies, were separated from home by broad rivers, towering mountain ranges, snow-covered plateaus...
...Greeks moved deep into the Persian Empire (see map) when Cyros, the Persian governor of Asia Minor, hired 12,900 of them to help overthrow his brother. King Artaxerxes. They clashed with the Persian forces at Cunaxa, near ancient Babylon. After Cyros was killed by a javelin, his native troops fled the field, leaving the Greeks surrounded. To make matters worse, the Persians slew the Greek commanders by treachery...
Then the long march began. Xenophon rallied the panic-stricken Hellenes, got them to elect five new leaders-himself included-and fight their way to the sea. The heavily armed Greeks moved laboriously across the plain, while clouds of Persian cavalry showered them with arrows. The only way out was to turn north into the mountains of Kurdistan, whose warlike inhabitants had just chopped to pieces a Persian army of 112,000 men. In seven days of ceaseless fighting with the Kurds, the Greeks suffered more than in all their battles with the Persians...