Word: dearer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dearer to the vultures than to their
...Ramakrishna, no deity was dearer than Kali. For years his absorbing passion was to become a paramahamsa-one who reached life's highest earthly stage-and see Kali "as tangibly as the temples, the trees, the river." Eventually...
...although Indians have no love for Britain, they universally abhor the Nazi principles of military domination and the German record of ruthless colonial exploitation. For various reasons India wants to keep out of World War II altogether. Mohandas K. Gandhi wants to because the principle of non-violence is dearer to him than freedom itself; the Indian National Congress wants to because it is determined to exploit the plight of Great Britain to secure complete independence...
...have been received from a chieftain in remotest Arabia, thanking British authorities for official war news bulletins. Excerpts: "The people ... are eagerly expecting the news that the British and their Allies have crushed Hitrar and his guilty and criminal party. They accuse Hitrar of having made all wares dearer by waging an unnecessary war and by attacking smaller or weaker nations. Our water-carrier assured me that he would stab Hitrar with his djambia [dagger] if Hitrar should happen to pass this way, and would not mind if I put chains into his legs...