Word: castee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On the afternoon of the third day, the elevator brought Mohandas K. Gandhi. He had come to New Delhi by special train, rode in a Packard over a driveway made especially for him to a colony of bhangis (sweepers), who belonged to the underprivileged but politically potent caste of Untouchables...
Way of Glory. Spain was still a feudal monarchy, its last shred of ancient grandeur dispelled by Yankee ironclads at Santiago and Manila Bay, when Francisco Franco first took notice of his star. By family and caste tradition he should have been a sailor. Because Spain was too poor to...
Sirs: In your article on the Johannes Steel campaign in the issue of Feb. 18, your statement that I "agreed to head a veterans' committee already heavily loaded with other left-wingers" is neither correct nor fair. I endorsed Mr. Steel as a candidate of the American Labor Party...
The root of their bitterness: "A caste system inherited from Frederick the Great of Prussia and the 18th-Century British Navy [which] is hardly appropriate to the U.S.," a caste system "connoted by the words 'enlisted' and 'commissioned.' "
They lambasted the U.S. Army's "military caste" system, deplored the absence of a strong U.S. foreign policy, thought that America was still isolationist because it had failed to send enough food to feed Europe.