Word: urdu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...racial views, he at least presents them well. He is not without cultural credentials to do so. By 25 he was a professor of Greek at Australia's University of Sydney; by 27, he was the author of four scholarly books. He speaks eleven languages (including, ironically enough, Urdu, one of the languages of Pakistan). Powell entered politics after World War II, and from the time he first stood for election in 1950 he has never lost. His family life with his wife and their two teenage daughters is characterized by friends as "warm and close." They have...