Word: burma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...union, he would probably be no more amenable to integrating Britain's economy with that of the rest of Western Europe than is the present cabinet. The only point on which the Tories have seriously attacked Ernest Bevin's foreign policy is the granting of independence to India and Burma, which could hardly be revised...
...women sold their souls," now hints pretty broadly of something sexy in The Hasty Heart. Adapted from John Patrick's 1945 Broadway hit, the film deals with nothing spicier than the last days of a proud, lonely Scottish soldier who is dying in a British army hospital in Burma. What makes the picture good-and the advertising trick twice as shabby-is its success in recapturing the play's disarming mixture of tart humor and genuine pathos...
...Burma has been chosen by Phillips Brooks House officials as one of the areas to benefit from its Book and Clothing Drive, which begins Monday...
...INDIA, BURMA and INDONESIA, organized socialism has made negligible headway...
Jungles & Flophouses. Down and Out is the largely autobiographical account of Orwell's own depression battle with starvation. He had gone home to India after Eton (where he "learned very little"), and had served five years with the Imperial Police in Burma. The climate, the itch to write and a distaste for British colonial policy sent him back to Europe. Publishers turned him down, his money ran out and soon he became a plongeur (dishwasher) in a Paris hotel...