Word: ashe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India's most famous player of the nagasaram, a special kind of Indian flute. Like other sannyasis, who abstain from hair-cutting and hair-combing, the two emissaries wore their long hair properly matted and wound round their heads. Their naked chests and foreheads were streaked with sacred ash, blessed by Sri Amblavana. In an ancient Ford, the evening of Aug. 14, they began their slow, solemn progress to Nehru's house. Ahead walked the flutist, stopping every 100 yards or so to sit on the road and play his flute for about 15 minutes. Another escort bore...
...Tall, ash-blonde, Vassar-grad Letitia Baldridge, daughter of Nebraska's ex-Congressman Malcolm Baldridge, was worried. Rain (always a possibility in London) would absolutely ruin her navy blue straw with velvet ribbons and the grey silk print she had bought in Paris. Then, too, there was the devastating possibility that a member of the Royal Family might speak to her. "I just hope to goodness," said Tish, "that I haven't a plate of food in my hand if I have to curtsy...
...Boulder City, nine miles west of the dam, was glum. Merchants, contemplating a quarter of a million dollars' worth of ash trays, sofa pillows and other knicknacks emblazoned "Souvenir of Boulder Dam," tried to decide what to do. They could get rid of them at a loss. But what if the next Congress were Democratic...
...Latin is "in the ash can" [TIME, April 14], that is where it belongs...
When Wilson Wyatt and the Veterans Emergency Housing Program were thrown out in December, it was proclaimed that now something could be done to stimulate building, that now that "these bureaucratic restrictions" were in the federal ash-can, private enterprise would get to work and provide the necessary housing. Even the President had said in his opening message to Congress that one million homes would be built this year, as matters then stood...