Word: castee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kasturbai had been Mohandas Gandhi's child-bride of three-score years ago, when he was a boy to whom marriage meant "good clothes to wear, drum beating . . .processions, rich dinners, and a strange girl to play with." She had been the child-mother who bore him four sons...
Premier Mikolajczyk's more passionately nationalistic colleagues had opposed this much of a concession. President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, a stanch Pilsudski man in his time, noticeably did not attend the conferences, reportedly threatened to resign rather than propitiate Moscow. Die hard General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, commander of all Polish forces, almost...
Speaking on the topic of "Students in the Nation," Fernsworth lashed out strongly against what he termed clerical fascism and bureaucracy in this country. The British system of selecting children and training them from youth to hold positions in government, was also upheld by him, in contrast to this country...
The Junkers are more than a caste. To the Junkers their Ostelbien (east of the Elbe) is the heart of Germany; and Germany was the world's heart. They are a social system, a way of life, a thought pattern, a cancer on Europe's uneasy breast. Century...
Above loyalty to the chief of state there is loyalty to the state and to the caste. Many an observer has guessed that on the eve of Germany's defeat the caste may betray Hitler, pick a Junker-perhaps Manstein-to play the Teutonic Petain. For, despite defeat and...