Word: sind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time for morning prayers, as the crack Pakistan Mail raced westward across the Sind desert one day last week. In the wooden cars at the front of the train, crowded beyond normal capacity, shivering Moslem passengers balanced precariously on narrow wooden seats to bend their knees in the direction of Mecca. In cars reserved for them, veiled womenfolk nursed babies and tied up bedrolls in anticipation of arrival at Karachi in an hour's time. Pakistan's bearded Foreign Minister Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan made his devotions in the quiet of an air-conditioned carriage...
...have an old adage which goes: "The ass that went into the salt mine turned into salt." This seems to fit Greece and Turkey very well since their faithful toeing of the American line over the Tunisian question. A. MOHIUDDIN Hyderabad, Sind, Pakistan
...Karachi's Sind Observer, the whole matter was outrageous. The U.S., said the English-language paper, was helping Pakistan's railroads by sending more than $650,000 worth of neckties to dress up the road's uniformed employees. The country needed wheat, cried the Observer, not neckties. What the paper itself apparently needed was a sharper translator: the U.S. was sending wooden railroad ties, which in Pakistan are known only by the British name, "sleepers...
...minimize Naziism, unless they felt that Naziism was a black blot on their record? Why should they take so much time and effort justifying themselves, unless they knew that their reputations were ruined? German criticism of other countries is mainly defensive. When a German angrily declares that "die Amerikaner sind auch nicht besser" (the Americans are no better, either), he makes himself feel that he is not the only one who bears a burden of guilt...
...professional soldier has lost his Prussianized kinks after working in the Ruhr mines, many a previous failure has proved himself in the tough scramble of postwar life. Healthy distrust of outworn German codes is surging. Fanaticism for the state is finished. On this point, the Germans are explicit: "Wir sind nicht noch einmal die Dummen" (We're not going to be played for suckers again...