Word: urdu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...astonishingly higher number of Harvard Pre-Meds appear at Wellesley than have ever passed through any Cambridge laboratory. On the other end of the spectrum, a friend and I once fended off an attack from a squad of Lesley co-eds by telling them we were Fine Arts and Urdu majors...
...Soviet captain emerged from the personnel carrier. "We want the three men back," he said, addressing Pakistani frontier policemen in English. Beside | him, an Afghan officer repeated the request in Urdu, adding, "If we don't have them back, you will be in for a lot of trouble." The Soviet vehicle then turned around and rumbled back into Afghanistan. "Not a shot was fired," a Pakistani officer recalled. "But just in case we didn't believe they meant business, they dropped 80 artillery shells on our positions that night." For the next two days, sporadic tank and artillery fire fell...
...creation of a Moslem state from the eastern and western wings of British India, the dream had grown under the systematic exploitation of the eastern region by the West. Bengali chauvinism and pride in a distinct cultural heritage sharpened the hostility, especially when the West Pakistani declared Urdu--a Western dialect--the country's official language. East Bengal saw its natural resources, jute and burlap, siphoned off to the factories of West Pakistan, and its educated population largely blocked from the nation's industrial and military establishment. Meanwhile, investments and other aid from the United States abetted the uneven development...
...border where, as Iranian guards looked on dumbly, we walked across toward Pakistan, rejoicing to ourselves: "We made it!" It was not to be that easy. At the Pakistani post, a visiting Iranian immigration official became suspicious and demanded our passports, despite the fact that we were speaking only Urdu and English. I refused to give him mine, but he took one of my companions' passports...