Word: brahmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ketcham was sick in Peter Bent Brahman Hospital and needed 16 transfusions during the height of his illness. Unable to meet the costs, he asked the Law School for aid. The Dean's Office says the Dormitory Council responded by rounding up volunteers to replace the blood in the Boston blood bank that had been pumped into Ketcham...
...joint commission was formed in 1947, a few months after aftosa had spread from infected Brahman bulls, imported from Brazil, over 16 states of central and southern Mexico. At first the commission's chief weapon was the rifle sanitaria: cattle in the infected zones were mass-slaughtered...
...Begum Liaquat Ali Khan, the Prime Minister's black-haired, bouncy wife, is the daughter of a Hindu Brahman turned Christian. She herself became a devout Moslem. To free Moslem women from purdah, she organized the white-pajamaed, pigtailed Pakistan Women's National Guard. "See these women?" she says, "they were in purdah once. Do you see any purdah now?" Married 17 years, Liaquat and the Begum have two sons, Ashraf, 12, and Akbar, 9, both aspiring musicians...