Word: day
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 made a radio appeal for volunteers for the Territorial Army. Even the normally pro-Communist weekly Blitz headlined: GIVE THE CHINESE A BLOODY NOSE...
...behavior to be seen in the ruins and sculptures of Mohenjo-daro, a city of the Indus Valley that nourished and died 4,000 years ago. Yet next door to the oxcart and the primitive wooden plow lies an India as modern as Pittsburgh, with belching smoke by day and glaring fire by night...
...four-day India visit, Dwight Eisenhower will go to Agra to see the moonlit mirage of the 17th century Taj Mahal; in New Delhi, he will sleep in another reminder of India's past-the gigantic pink sandstone President's House, which used to be the palace of the British Viceroy. Today's India prefers different monuments: bustling factories that turn out locomotives and toothbrushes, diesel engines and radio sets. For all its look of the past, the ambitious young republic is forging ahead in atomic energy, quadrupling its steel capacity in a few years' time...
...retirement farms for aging sacred cows. An estimated 7,000,000 Indians are unemployed; many millions more get work only sporadically. India's food production is at last gaining, but it has a hard time keeping up with the Indian birth rate, which is also increasing. Every day 28,400 new Indians are born...
They became better acquainted in 1956 on Nehru's second trip to the U.S., soon after Hungary and Suez had erupted into the headlines. Spending a day at Ike's Gettysburg farm, the two began talking at breakfast, continued through the morning until lunch. Then after a short nap, the talks went on through the late afternoon, dinner and evening-a total of 14 hours. It was, said Nehru, the longest sustained conversation he has ever had with anyone, and it touched on subjects ranging from the painting of Grandma Moses to the personality of Nikita Khrushchev...