Word: connaught
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...16th century. At 15, the wild child of the North was such a terror to the English that the viceroy shut him up in Dublin Castle for safekeeping. At 19, he escaped and launched a campaign of impetuous brilliance that drove the British out of Ulster and Connaught. In the next nine years, the O'Donnell and his tall gallo-glavses made Irish stew out of British armies sent against them. Then, while on a mission to the court of Spain. Red Hugh fell afoul of a British agent who accomplished with a philter what could not be done...
...thousand students in Delhi marched from the Red Fort in the old city to Connaught Place, shouting anti-Chinese slogans and waving banners reading "Choke the yellow opium eaters!" and "Wipe Out Chink Stink!" That evening, brandishing torches, the students charged police lines before the office of the Communist Party while a handful of Red underlings cowered in the darkness behind a hedge on the office lawn. The desperate Indian Communists finally issued a party statement denouncing both Moscow and Peking, and appealing to "all sections of the people to unite in defense of the motherland...
...English widow, Queen Victoria Eugenia, as the "last surviving granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria." There are at least two other granddaughters of Britain's Queen Victoria still very much alive-namely: Lady Patricia Ramsay (daughter of Victoria's third son Arthur, Duke of Connaught) and Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (daughter of Victoria's fourth son Leopold, Duke of Albany...
...gimlet-eyed money-changers on Hong Kong's Connaught Road and along the nearby Macao waterfront traditionally buy-at carefully reckoned prices-even the most dubious currencies. But last week they were shaking their heads at fishermen and smugglers selling Communist China's yuan. For the yuan had dropped to an alltime low. It began its spectacular decline last year, took its biggest plunge since January, when the news of China's food shortages first leaked out. Overall, it has dropped 50% in value from a year ago; buyers can get all they want...
...Prohibition Era in present-day India. As the members of India's Central Prohibition Committee met last week in New Delhi, the capital around them went its merry alcoholic way. In private apartments converted into speakeasies, tired Delhi businessmen sipped beer at 10 rupees ($2) a bottle. In Connaught Circus, the heart of town, young spivs sold paper bags containing liquor, soda and ice. A man walking along with a bicycle tire over his shoulder might be on his way to fix a flat, but it was just as likely he was en route to a customer thirsty enough...