Word: selangor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, went up the road to Kuala Lumpur, past villages circled with barbed wire, past check points and roadblocks set up against Commu nist terrorists. He arrived in Kuala Lumpur just as a terrorist hideout was uncovered only a two-iron shot from the ninth hole of the exclusive Selangor Golf Club (see "Ruining the Rough" in FOREIGN NEWS...
Just beyond the fairways of the Selangor Golf Club in terrorist-troubled Kuala Lumpur lie some of the best-protected residences in Malaya, including the mansion of the Chief Minister of Selangor state and the town palaces of several reigning Sultans...
Last week a foursome at Selangor's ninth hole was surprised to see a squad of riflemen in the brush beside the fairway, muttered something about their ruining the rough. As the golfers prepared to tee off, there was a burst of rifle fire. The soldiers had come upon a long-sought hideout of the Ampang gang, a Communist military unit which once spread terror and death through Kuala Lumpur. In a brief fight three terrorists were killed. "It's shockin'," said a bald-headed British major. "I might have sliced one into the beggars' camp...
Meaning of Meaning. In Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, delivering a long speech to 6,000 Malayans on "The Meaning of Patience in Islam," the mufti of Selangor was shouted down after 45 minutes...
Shortly before 9 a.m., the first processions arrived: the Lord Mayor of London and the Speaker of the House of Commons; the representatives of 74 foreign powers, including General George C. Marshall and Russia's Jacob Malik; the Sultans of Zanzibar, Perak and Selangor; Her Majesty, the Queen of Tonga. The Dukes of Gloucester and Kent entered and took up positions in the chancel. The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, each with her ladies in waiting, moved down the aisle and took their privileged places. Outside, and ever nearer, came the sound of horses' hooves on Parliament Square...