Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...somewhere the subconscious racial memories of a hundred generations of Brahmans." Behind him, too, were conscious memories of hearing since childhood of the "overbearing character and insulting manner of English people . . . toward Indians." Those memories made him a champion of the underdog and filled him with his own intense brand of racial prejudice. "I try to be impartial and objective," he noted in his autobiography, "but the Asiatic in me influences my judgment whenever an Asiatic people are concerned...
...first the mothers of Moroka did not know what had happened. They looked up to see the children skipping and dancing about like corn on a hot pan, then, as their mothers gaped from their doorways, the kids streamed into the brand-new Presbyterian church. But one stayed back long enough to explain: "They're following a little man no bigger than a boy-he's got hair all over his body and a long white beard, and claws instead of fingers." The mothers' hearts froze. For this, they knew at once, was Tikoloshe-the evil sprite...
...neutralism, Nixon said that the U.S., which went through an era of isolationism, can understand the feelings of some nations that want to avoid international alliances. But free nations, he said, can find far greater security by banding together. Then he laid down a clear line: "There is [a] brand of neutralism that makes no moral distinction between the Communist world and the free world. With this viewpoint we have no sympathy...
...increased wages, is tending to raise prices. Although the cost-of-living index has held fairly steady since the first of the year, there are signs that it may be heading upward. Bread prices increased 1? a loaf last week; soft-drink dealers added a penny a bottle; brand-name coffee rose to $1.27 a pound...
...Cairo, in the wake of a rash of ceremonies celebrating Egypt's freedom from foreign troops, the newly brassbound Chief of Staff of the brand-new Moroccan army, moonfaced Mouldy Hassan, 28 (whose new rank is explained by his competence and his nearness to Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Yousef, his father), got off a neat bit of guidance for neutrals being courted by two worlds. Said he: "We are Moslems and have the right to be bigamists. We can marry both the East and the West, and remain faithful to our spouses...