Word: brahmin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilot project including representatives of four religions has been set up this Fall. A Brahmin Hindu from India, a Burmese Buddhist who has lectured at the New International Center of Buddhistic Studies, a Pakistani Buddhist monk, and an American Christian participate in the program...
Khrushchev happily drove on. At Ames, where he toured the Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, he was at his bubbling best. More and more, as tensions slacked, he made Brahmin-born Cabot Lodge his straight man. Said he in a hog barn: "In all his life, Mr. Lodge probably hasn't taken in as many smells as today." When it came time for the predictable message, Khrushchev was, as always, prepared: "These Soviet and American pigs can coexist-why then can't our nations coexist as well? . . . If I may say something in a joking...
...brain wave that resulted in a brilliant 13-volume history of U. S. naval operations. Even before the December 7 disaster he had become a prominent spokesman on maritime affairs. His active pre-war support of President Roosevelt's foreign policy won Time magazine's epithet, "a Boston Brahmin with a brain;" and in April, 1941 his urging that convoys accompany supply ships crossing the Atlantic was but an example of his acute perception of naval problems. When heeded, his plan proved successful in cutting down the high mortality rate of cargo vessels...
Henry Adams: The Middle Years, by Ernest Samuels. Boston's testy Brahmin found life pleasant in those charmed years when his Eve-Marian ("Clover") Hooper-was in wifely charge of the education of Henry Adams...
Henry Adams: The Middle Years, by Ernest Samuels. Boston's testy Brahmin found life pretty pleasant in those charmed years when his Eve-Marian ("Clover") Hooper-was in charge of the education of Henry Adams...