Word: calcutta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will then head for training at Garnisch-Partenkirchen in Germany in preparation for the Olympics. Then, after the Olympics, Button will start back to Cambridge by way of Vienna, Tel Aviv, Bombay, Calcutta, Manila, Tokyo, Honolulu, and Colorado Springs...
India will be an excellent testing ground for the new drug since there are 75,000,000 cases of malaria a year in that country. The Malaria Institute of India at Delhi and the School of Tropical Medicine in Calcutta are cooperating with Fieser in the tests...
This whale of a story was not quite enough for Calcutta-born John Masters, 36, a wartime brigadier with Wingate in Burma, who has tackled the subject in a first novel. Faithfully following a popular formula (the book is a Literary Guild choice), Masters has lugged in such sideshows as tiger hunts, cholera epidemics and sweaty sessions between Hero Savage and a nubile native queen. ("Her bare thighs were warm, and her hands were on him...'I did wrong...but go on, go on. I love you.' ") Rodney Savage is a man of good will...
While working at the Hotel Savoy in London, he met a young pilot, who convinced him to fly for Imperial Airways on its pioneering transcontinental flights. He piloted old De Hanvilland planes to such remote spots as Karachi, Bombay, Calcutta, Baghdad, and Demascus...
Since India would not go beyond indignant remonstrance with Peking (see below), some Tibetans talked of an appeal to the U.N. So far, the only outside help came from Calcutta. There a group of lamas staged a weeklong, nonstop recitation of Buddhist scriptures and prayers for peace. They then paraded through the streets beating drums, blowing 15-foot-long conches, and sprinkling holy water on the faithful...