Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become purely academic, a mass of mere words. Sir Stafford Cripps politely told Parliament that the Government had postponed comment on India's demands for self-government. While the British public cried for action, London rumor held that Government proposals had struck snags both in London and New Delhi...
...India the heat was creeping north from Cape Comorin, the heat which would grow to a relentless blaze scorching the country until the June monsoon. Much-traveled General Sir Archibald Wavell, back in New Delhi to resume his Indian command (see p. 19), waited in the heat for London to make up its mind. A U.S. air mission had arrived, the first tangible sign that U.S. fighters might join in India's defense. They too waited for London's words. And in New Delhi the Viceroy, who rules India for Britain, also waited...
...build the easier 330-mile stretch to Sichang. But necessity and good pay spurred these laborers; their bosses were the same Chinese geniuses who had created the Burma Road. Perhaps a hopeful Chinese spokesman had that fact in mind when he announced that Chiang Kai-shek in New Delhi had, among other feats (see p. 24), arranged a satisfactory war route from India to China...
...aggression. The Japs also gave us sweet words, but brought hell, rape, looting, death-chill death, barbaric death." These were the desperate words of warning with which Chiang Kai-shek hoped to cash in on India's potential fighting population of 352 million natives, on his visit to New Delhi last week. But Chiang did not suspect that the spirit of Kipling would frustrate all his appeals. He did not know that Pandit Nehru, Mahatma Gandhi's successor as Chairman of the Indian National Congress and symbol of India's nationalist movement, had spent two-thirds of his life...
Enthusiasts. In Delhi, Ont., a V-for-Victory-minded couple named their new daughter Victorine Valorie Veronica Vanzieleghen...