Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speculators, the government is buying grain direct from farmers and selling it in government-run "fair-price shops" in the cities. Yet this plan has a drawback, for it attracts peasants from the countryside to the cities in search of lower food prices. Already 4,000 families from West Bengal villages have streamed into Calcutta, swelling the city's army of derelicts...
...that one day the Congress and the government might merge into a one-party state. Local Congress leaders who have held power since 1947 own too much land and urban property to permit the reforms that are needed if India is to reach economic equity. The zamindars of West Bengal, for example, have become (through Congress Party consent) the equivalent of the English gentry...
Meanwhile, up the Bay of Bengal into East Pakistan raged one of the huge cyclones that commonly rise at the start of the monsoon. Winds howling up to 100 m.p.h. washed 13-ft. tidal waves over the narrow channels of the Ganges delta, flooding the alluvial fields, smashing and flattening the green stalks of the vital jute crop, ripping apart banana, betel nut and coconut palm plantations, uprooting giant mango orchards and inundating thousands of acres of rice. In East Pakistan's capital of Dacca, 125 miles from the sea, millions spent four terrified hours in the dead...
...indomitable Crimson runners, also unbeaten on the season, will destroy the Bulldog and Bengal squads in New Haven this afternoon and chalk up their fourth straight indoor Big Three title. Their inferior rivals have the individual stars to give scattered excitement to this afternoon's contest, but Bill McCurdy's charges have a balance unmatched anywhere else in the Ivy League...
Next day Madras was quiet, but violence flared in Bengal and the former French colony of Pondicherry. Indira Gandhi, daughter of the late Jawaharlal Nehru, said that Shastri was ready to compromise, and the Law Ministry was reportedly preparing a draft proposal for presentation next week to the chief ministers of India's 16 states. That would not necessarily end Shastri's troubles. Hindi fanatics might well generate an even more violent whirlwind if their dream of language supremacy is shattered...