Word: sardar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the minds of the residents of a spanking new civic housing development on Price Street in Smethwick (pop. 68,000), when they learned that prospective neighbors were no natives of the black industrial Midlands, but proper natives-from Pakistan, of all places. The father, 28-year-old Sardar Mohammed, is a hardworking factory hand, the mother shy and house proud, the two children positively sparkling...
...hard for the Sardar Mohammeds to understand talk of obligation; they could not quite see the problem. Said Sardar: "At work I get on well with my mates. Everyone calls me Sam and is friendly. Why shouldn't my children have a decent home to live in like other children?" Fingering her long pigtail, her kohl-ringed eyes wide with nervousness, his wife said, "I don't understand what's happening...
Whenever a foreign visitor sits down in the Kabul office of His Royal Highness Sardar Mohammed Daoud of Afghanistan, he invariably gets a lecture. Its subject: the $700 million in foreign aid Daoud needs for his ambitious five-year economIc plan for mountainous, feudal Afghanistan. "We hope all our friends will participate and that we will get assistance from everywhere," he smiles, lighting an American cigarette with a Russian match, "But if it is not forthcoming in one quarter, we will get it in another...
Shriver's Punjab stay began with a massive brunch (fruit salad, porridge, fish, bacon and eggs, chicken and tea) with grey-bearded Chief Minister Sardar Partap Singh Kairon. Although he holds a master of arts degree from the University of Michigan, Kairon plainly had the wrong idea about Peace Corps purposes, promptly began asking for agricultural tools and pneumatic tires for bullock carts. Shriver patiently explained that the aim of the Peace Corps was merely to send able and enthusiastic young Americans abroad to work side by side, wherever needed, with the natives of underdeveloped countries. Kairon advised Shriver...