Word: chini
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...windswept wastes of Ladakh province may have done more than anything else to bring Asia to what Jawaharlal Nehru calls "one of those peak events in history when a plunge has to be taken in some direction." The gunfire in Ladakh echoed through India. Instead of shouts of "Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai!" (India and China are brothers). New Delhi's streets resounded with the clamor, "Give us arms! We will go to Ladakh!" The Red Chinese embassy was stoned, the All-India Students' Congress called for a "Throw Back the Aggressors Day," and India's Defense Minister...
Indians responded to the Communist blandishments with a will. "Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai," they shouted at the Red leader-"India and China, brothers, brothers." "If the entire world became one pattern," said Nehru, conceding perhaps a few basic differences between his government and that of Red China, "interest in life would lessen...
...daughter of mine," yowled aged Violante Companarini at the Court as the child wife of Count Guido Frances-chini wept her woe on the far side of the New Jersey palace of justice. Perhaps she is right. Poor Pompilia may not be her child. At least she is the count's wife. But what was she doing with the youthful priest Caponsacchi on the evening of the twenty-fifth of July...