Word: urdu
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...chain-smoker, Liaquat takes an occasional gimlet (gin and lime), likes to repair radios and cigarette lighters, and sometimes beats a hot drum at parties. He also likes to sing the songs of Iqbal, a great Urdu poet, accompanying himself on the harmonium...
...Paris' Longchamp track, the horses run clockwise, the clotheshorses from the maisons de haute couture run the gauntlet of admiring eyes, and bettors can be heard exchanging tips on both in Urdu, Sudanese, Hindustani or Cambodian. But from under the toppers and turbans in the grandstand comes only an occasional listless Allez! or Vite!; it is across the turf on the grassy reaches of Longchamp's infield that the passion of Parisian racing is concentrated...
...Gandhi favored Hindustani, a combination of Hindi and Urdu. The creation of Pakistan, where Urdu is proposed as the official language, dispelled the dream...
Islam's missionaries to Holland, however, have not had easy going. First schooled in their own soft Urdu, they had to learn the harsh Dutch language. Then they tirelessly passed out leaflets (20,000 a year) at big city railroad stations, beaches and among downtown shopping crowds...
...knew what had been said. The speech was in Chinese. It might just as well have been in Urdu. To the delegates it was important only that it had been made by a Communist, China's Kuo Mo-jo.* The seekers after "peace"-of the Soviet-Russian variety-perfectly exemplified a lesson of the great Russian physiologist, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov: to an artificial stimulus, they had made a conditioned response...