Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ceylon for Wavell. At the southern nub of India, where the Indian Ocean meets the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea, lies a focal center of General Wavell's task: Britain's island of Ceylon...
...Malayan forces would be free to attack Java, Burma, perhaps Australia. With evacuation almost impossible, it would deal a heavy blow in manpower. Some 60,000 British troops were on the island. And it would give Japan a free passage to the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal. Knowing these things Singapore's defenders fought bravely and well, but bravery was not enough...
...title is a fair sample. The Nikolides, Greeks who live downriver from a village in Bengal, never directly appear in the story. They are significant only because two English children are sent to their home for breakfast while a sick pet is put out of the way. For one of the children, eleven-year-old Emily, the meal is, to be sure, important; it marks "the last hour of her childhood." Yet the title typifies a certain trickiness that runs throughout the story...
Huey, whom authorities discovered had been in the Stadium since early Tuesday afternoon, was escorted to the gate muttering dire threats against the Bengal eleven "We'll murder you bums 14 to 0," he spluttered. Notre Dame 20 Army 7 Temple 14 Boston College 7 Colgate 7 Holy Cross 0 Cornell 21 Columbia 6 Fordham 14 Purdue 0 Navy 7 Penn 0 Brown 14 Yale 7 Nebraska 14 Kansas State 0 Tennessee 20 L.S.U. 7 Texas 24 So Methodist 13 California 7 UC.L.A...
Died. Sir Bijay Chand Mahtab, 59, the Maharajadhiraja Bahadur of Burdwan, once reputed to be the British Empire's biggest taxpayer; of heart disease; in Burdwan, India. Senior Hindu Prince of Bengal, he had an annual income estimated...