Word: urdu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pakistan, a dream of Moslem students before it became a political issue, was originally concocted from P for Punjab, A for the Afghans of the North-West Frontier, K for Kashmir, S for Sind, "pure" in Tan from Urdu, with "stan" Baluchistan. means "Pak" also "Land of the means Pure." Last week the League convention defined it to embrace Punjab, Sind, Baluchistan, North-West Frontier Province (all in northwestern In dia), Assam and most of Bengal (in the north east). Jinnah has even advocated a thousand-mile corridor across Hindustan to connect the two parts...
...most ignorant draftee. You're sitting in nowhere after a hard day and you have nothing to read but a couple of old magazines you've read ten times. It's raining solidly, so there aren't any movies. The Indian radio is full of Urdu and Hindustani and that monotonous music which drives Caucasians crazy. So you go out and get yourself a bottle and a woman. This may sound silly or sissy or something, but when you turn on your set and hear good old corny Jack Benny and stuff like that, well...
...some skirmishing on the northwest frontier. He also found time to marry beauteous Lady Margaret Diana Bingham; they have three children. A classic specimen of the English professional officer type, Alexander is self-contained, quiet, outwardly confident when the world shakes. He speaks German, French, Italian, Russian, Urdu, seems to be at home anywhere. Last fortnight, in the thick of the Italian fighting, his U.S. aide, Captain John Grimsby, was startled to hear a guttural German voice barking in the General's room. It was Alexander taking his German lesson from a phonograph...
...Against the Marines' determination that their female reserves shall have no nickname, even a moonshee (Urdu for language teacher) is helpless...
...spent in a little shack which was so dirty and wet and crowded that we hardly slept at all. The sandflies were absolutely appalling. The next night we came rather unexpectedly to a clean, well-ordered Chinese camp. Here was a Chinese colonel, an interpreter who spoke Chinese, English, Urdu, Hindu, Bengali, Nepali and Assamese! and four Chinese medical officers. They had nearly 50 patients. They seemed delighted to see us and for vague promises of assistance in the future they were embarrassingly grateful. They showered the most lavish hospitality on us and produced something very like a slap...