Word: sher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have never seen another place where a sheriff could swagger around the polls advising voters: "I don't give a goddam who you vote fer-I'm gonna be your sher'f." And anyone who went fishing in Wallins Creek after an election was more likely to hook a ballot box than a fish...
...persistent fly off his face. "Milk!" Newton splutters, staggering back, clutching wildly at his throat and shuddering like the plague. "I be pizened!" The way he walks, anybody would think he had at least twelve peg legs instead of one, and the way he talks, "Jim Oarkins" and "Trays-sher Eye-lund" sound like scrumptiously pleasurable belches...
...fought religious hatred: "Not only Moslems," he taught, "but Sikhs and Hindus are living in want." In this struggle, Sheik Abdullah gained the intense loyalty of most Kashmiris, the friendship of Jawaharlal Nehru (who came to Kashmir to defend him in the Maharaja's courts), and the title "Sher-i-Kashmir" (Lion of Kashmir...
...Militia that fought the Pakistanis until the Indian army flew in to the rescue. It was a desperate defense, and the Lion of Kashmir inspired it. Once, the Pakistani tribesmen lashed a young merchant to the porch of an apple shop and told him to shout, "Pakistan zindabad, Sher-i-Kashmir' murdabad!" (Long live Pakistan! Death to the Lion of Kashmir!). But the young man refused. So the tribesmen crowned him with a jagged piece of tin, and put 14 shots through his body. He died crying Abdullah's slogan: "Victory to Hindu-Moslem unity...