Word: punjab
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Damascus, because "one Paradise is enough," but within three years of his death in 632, his followers surged out of the desert and seized Damascus. Under the Ommiad Caliphs, Syria, so long a pawn, became the heart of an empire that stretched from the Pyrenees to the Punjab. Enlightened and energetic, Syria's new rulers drained the country's marshes, irrigated her steppe, gave Damascus a water system-still functioning-and converted the Byzantine Church of St. John the Baptist into one of Islam's great shrines, the Ommiad Mosque, still standing in gilded glory. For centuries...
Though the socialist-minded Indian government viewed Graham with undisguised distaste, coolly turned down his suggestion for a five-year tax moratorium on small new businesses, a dozen prominent private Indian businessmen eagerly offered to co-invest some $140,000. The Punjab National Bank offered to investigate loan candidates free of charge, promised to consider later loan requests from Graham selectees...
...balls by the hundreds as soon as they can get the cash; a young hog farmer with a growing surplus big enough to start a cannery. "I haven't had as much fun in years," said Graham. Then he deposited $25,000 of his own money in the Punjab Bank as the start of a lending fund which he hopes will grow and grow...
...political side of the picture, Nasim Hasan Shah, Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and the High Court of West Pakistan, and lecturer at the Law College of the University of the Punjab, said the chief problem in politics is unity between the two sections that are divided by over 1,000 miles of alien territory...
...serious social climbing on a Swiss Alp when he seduces Gerry's well-heeled, well-built girl friend Emily on "the steep slope above the Zmuttbach.'' Married and shortly in receipt of Gerry's gentlemanly blessing ("the best man won"), the couple head for the Punjab and Peter's civil-service duties...