Word: taj
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been bombed with a large loss of life as Pakistani air force planes zipped repeatedly across the border. Included in their attacks was the city of Amritsar, whose Golden Temple is the holiest of holies to all Sikhs. At Agra, which was bombed in the Pakistanis' first blitz, the Taj Mahal was camouflaged with a forest of twigs and leaves and draped with burlap because its marble glowed like a white beacon in the moonlight...
...sides offered substantially differing accounts -and both barred newsmen from the battlefronts. According to Indian sources, the Pakistani attack came at 5:47 p.m., just as dusk was falling. The sites seemed selected for their symbolic value as much as their strategic importance: Agra, site of the Taj Mahal; Srinagar, the beautiful capital of Kashmir; Amritsar, holy city of the Sikhs, India's bearded warriors. Forty-five minutes after the air attack, Pakistani troops shelled India's western frontier and were reported to have crossed the border at Punch in the state of Jammu...
...dark-skinned Dravidians who inhabited it and imposed on them the caste system. But during the millenniums after Christ, plunderers from Central Asia-Turks, Persians and Afghans-brought with them the flaming sword of Mohammedanism. By the mid-17th century, when the Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal, the subcontinent was firmly under Moslem rule, and its Hindus were a subjugated majority...
...begin with, this musical about gobs on an amorous shore leave never ranked as more than a passing diversion. The book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green bear the same resemblance to a great musical comedy that Levittown does to the Taj Mahal. Ron Field, director and coproducer, has enlarged the definition of chutzpah by re-choreographing the Jerome Robbins dance numbers. Leonard Bernstein's music holds up best, and its peppy dissonances and romantic melodic line serve to season the overall inanity. Key Performers Bernadette Peters, Phyllis Newman, Donna McKechnie, Ron Husmann, Jess Richards and Remak...
Before departing for his ski chalet at St. Moritz last week, the Shah of Iran conferred a medal, the first-class Taj, or crown, on his finance minister Jamshid Amuzegar. The dapper, Cornell-trained Amuzegar had led the six oil-producing nations of the Persian Gulf-Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar-in wresting an enormous increase in payments from 23 international oil companies, 20 of them American. In fact the Shah, who had guided the negotiations over the gold telephones installed at his desk and bedside in the royal palace, had good reason to be pleased...