Word: burmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a red-hot poker. The first people to tumble out were the aboriginal Kha. a little darkened by the searing heat. After them came the cooler and lighter-skinned Laotians. Anthropologists take a duller view, and say that the Laotians are simply a branch of the great Tibeto-Burman race that swept into southeast Asia over six centuries ago and conquered the local Malay tribes...
Despite wrenching translations and ironfisted Spanish censorship, the show retained a surprising amount of its pace and charm. Spain's top scenic designer, Sigfredo Burman, speckled the mythical isle of Bali Ha'i with miniature lights that blink by night, put ripples in the sea, installed clouds that moved swimmingly across pink-and-azure sky. and devised ocean waters to lap seductively at the sandy shores...
...there were signs that some winds were blowing Rab Butler's way. "We are getting out of our immediate difficulties," said Stephen Burman, a Midlands industrialist, last week, "and we can retrieve our place as a leading world power if we get down to it. But we have had life too easy; there has been a safety-first attitude . . . Every year I send a manager either to the Continent or to the U.S. to look for the best machinery for the job we do ... but many others are in a rut and won't follow the lead...
...Meaning master. The term, like sahib in India, was once generally used to describe Burma's British overlords. When the British left, almost every self-respecting Burman promptly assumed the title for himself...
Said Seagrave: "But I hate like sin to keep imposing on you." With a smile, U Kyaw Myint said softly: "As a Burman, I think...