Word: schoolmarmish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Fatima Jinnah, 74, spinster sister and confidante of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, longtime Pakistani nationalist and in 1947 his new country's first chief executive, a schoolmarmish aristocrat who in 1964 came out of a 16-year retirement following the death of her brother to oppose Mohammed Ayub Khan for the presidency, bitterly but unsuccessfully accusing the military leader of seeking to "scrap the constitution" and set up a dictatorship; of a heart attack; in Karachi...