Word: bengals
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...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...
Midway through the half, Harvard's running game began to falter. Successive turnovers resulted in St. Thomas More layups as the lead ballooned to 34-18. Bengal began forcing the ball into the middle where Hooft and 6'7" pivotman Alex James were well covered...
...Harvard offense began to click when playmaker Rich Bengal connected with Hooft, cutting across the middle from the weak side. Only Hooft's hot shooting from inside the key kept the Crimson close as St. Thomas held its steady lead...