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Word: cheesed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three of Bhowani Junction'?, main characters take turns at telling the story, which hangs on the problems of a group Americans know little about. In India, there are many names for them-Anglo-Indians, Eurasians, half-castes, chee-chees, blacky-whites, eight-annas.* Victoria Jones, an eight-anna girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eight-Anna Girl | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

The Navajo beet worker, Kee Chee, did not do as he was told . . . He was told both by myself, the superintendent of the hospital, and the representative of the Amalgamated Sugar Co. which employed him, to leave the infant in the hospital. Moreover, Amalgamated and Minidoka County were paying and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 24, 1951 | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

The bus was cold. Kee's pretty, 25-year-old wife, Mary, covered the baby with blankets. But before the bus reached Salt Lake City the child was dead. The Chees stared at the little corpse, not only with grief, but-like all the other passengers in the jolting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: The Dead Baby | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

Thus they rode, for 16 hours more. At Gallup, N.Mex., a new ordeal awaited the Chees. Without rest or food from 10 o'clock in the morning until 4 in the afternoon, they sat on stiff-backed chairs in the sheriff's office while an autopsy was performed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: The Dead Baby | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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