Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Welthy* Fisher first went to Asia 60 years ago. The daughter of a Rome, N.Y., Methodist businessman, she took a job as headmistress of a missionary school for girls in Nanchang, China. When she was 43, she married the Methodist Bishop of India and Burma, Frederick Fisher, and through him came to know Mohandas Gandhi. She first met the Mahatma in 1926, sat with him for five hours while he meditated. Years after she was widowed and just before his own death, Gandhi urged her to go to work in India's villages...
...CLOTHES. Around 1000 B.C. the nomads of Central Asia found that their simple cloth or hide wraps were uncomfortable on horseback; so they invented trousers. Trousers were so closely associated with barbarians that when some Romans began sporting them an imperial edict was issued against their use. As late as 1814 the Duke of Wellington was refused admission to his club because he wore trousers. Cuffs on trousers first appeared in New York City near the end of the 19th century after an Englishman on his way to a fashionable wedding was caught in a downpour and turned...
Speaking on "The prospects of Democracy in Asia," the three main speakers of the evening from Ceylon, Iraq, and the Philippines immediately established themselves as optimistic, pessimistic and undecided as to the prospects of Democracy...
...touchy interchanges began with a question from the floor asking whether the problem of unassimilated minorities were an obstacle to Democratic development in Asia. Taking the microphone, the representative from Israel said that, speaking as an individual and not for his country, he felt that the problem of Arab refugees in his country had to be solved in the larger context of finding a solution to the hostile relations between the Arab nations and Israel. There are also many Israeli refugees who had to flee from Arab territories without compensation, he continued, but "we feel that this problem is only...
Responding to a remark by El Khatib that many of the Democratcies in Europe were only superficial and that many of the "Democrats" are dangerous, Murugesu Sivasithamparam, Member of Parliament from Ceylon said, "If I am a demagogue I don't mind, Democracy must and shall prevail in Asia...