Word: bahadur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington of Roving Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, who had traveled 30,000 miles, visited twelve countries. Harriman was the farthest flying of all the emissaries Johnson sent out. With him when he returned was Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who had flown to India for Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri's funeral and then visited Saigon for talks with South Vietnamese and U.S. leaders. Neither official could disguise his disillusion...
...Finance Minister Morarji Desai. "Will you bless my success?" she asked. "I give you my blessing," he replied. Then Indira Gandhi, the only daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, took her seat and waited for the parliamentary members of the ruling Congress Party to elect a Prime Minister to replace Lal Bahadur Shastri, who died in Tashkent two weeks...
...Indira Gandhi and 169 for her only rival, Morarji Desai. Indira walked quickly to the podium, spoke briefly. "As I stand before you," she said in Hindi, "my thoughts go back to the great leaders: Mahatma Gandhi, at whose feet I grew up, Panditji, my father, and Lal Bahadur Shastri. These leaders have shown the way, and I want to go along the same path...
...that remained of Lai Bahadur Shastri was a small pile of ashes on the bank of New Delhi's Jumna River. Even as the nation mourned the death of its gentle leader, the search began for a successor. At week's end, as India's leading politicians huddled in one meeting after another, it seemed likely that the choice would fall on a candidate with a magical legacy in Indian politics: Indira Gandhi, 48, daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru...
Last week, Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri made the first change in his Cabinet since he took office 18 months ago. It was no minor matter. Out went T. T. (for Tiruvallur Thattai) Krishnamachari, 66, Shastri's strong-willed Minister of Finance...