Word: samarkand
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...sons of enterprise and sweat, Honor the quick, the strong, the free, the brave - The mind whose thoughts are cradled in the hand - The fierce emancipators of the slave Exacting destiny of virgin land. We are the builders of dynamic things, Successors to the spires of Samarkand - Boilers and bars, propellers, wheels and wings To run and fly and dive at our behest, Through which the mighty wind of freedom sings. America is not a land of rest...
...Samarkand is like Southern California. It has a self-preserving apricot that ripens, dries on the tree. Windfalls on the ground stay in good condition for a month, enabling one man to harvest 200 acres...
Ethel Mannin, blurtaceous English novelist (Sounding Brass, South to Samarkand), deplored as "stupid and cruel" the taboo against unmarried mothers. Said she, to the London Society for Sex Education and Guidance:* "A child can't be legal or illegal. It's there...
...that two new supply routes to replace the lost Burma Road were in "full readiness" to handle U.S. supplies for the Chinese armies. One route, covering 4,500 miles, uses a railroad from the U.S. air supply base at Karachi in India, winds north through Kabul in Afghanistan to Samarkand in Russia. From there goods will be sent along the central Asia plains on the Turkestan-Siberian railway to the Soviet terminus at Alma Ata. The final stage is via the highway the Chinese built along the old Marco Polo trade route through Sinkiang and Kansu provinces to Chungking...
...under Titus destroyed Jerusalem, slaughtered 1,100,000, sent 97,000 into slavery. Attila the Hun sacked and burned all of Northern Italy, spared Rome only after Pope Leo I appeared in the Hun camp with an eloquent plea for the Holy City. Genghis Khan butchered the people of Samarkand, razed the city...