Word: bengal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drizzle gave way to heavy rains and eventually to squalls. In the tiny hamlet of Komali in Andhra state, on the Bay of Bengal, the parson of Christ Church flung open the church doors and called his flock from their thatched houses. "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden," he intoned in a deep bass, "and I will give you rest." About 125 villagers, most of them harijan (untouchable) converts, took shelter. When winds ranging up to 100 m.p.h. ripped off the roof, the walls crumbled and entombed the congregation; all were found dead the next...
Fine's backcourt mate is sure-shooting Rich Bengal. Bengal will be spelled by sophomores Mike Stenhouse and Bobby Allen. The forwards are co-captain Gary Ackerman, a trenchman under the boards, 6-ft. 6-in. Cyrus Booker, and swingmen Mark Hadley and Bob Hooft. Hooft was the Crimson's second leading scorer last year, averaging 10.3 points a game...
...point of departure, as always, is the immigrant Indian community of his childhood: where the first bit of cooked food was sacrificed to the fire; where only a male hand could cut the pumpkin because (as he learned decades later in West Bengal) the pumpkin was the vegetable substitute for a living sacrifice. He remains the outsider-as indeed he is in most of his literary locales-but through his travels he has come to understand that "Indian memories, the memories of that India which lived on into my childhood in Trinidad, are like trapdoors into a bottomless past...
Harvard went into the locker room at the half with a 29-24 edge after a 12-point scoring salvo in the final five minutes. After Rick Bengal pulled up on a fast break to hit a short jumper, Hooft took a length-of-the-court lob and raced in for a layup that beat the halftime buzzer...
...Statesman has long been one of India's most respected dailies. It exposed British government cover-ups of the 1942 Bengal famine and was the first to report the border skirmishes that led to the 1962 war with China. With pugnacious Irani as its managing director, the Statesman also criticized Gandhi's emergency measures. In return, the government has confiscated Irani's passport, forced the paper to miss several editions through censorship delays and tried to impound one of the Statesman's presses...