Word: even
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...land of plenty from a land of want, spoke quietly and simply of his people's past sufferings and of their present needs. But sometimes his words suggested that he did not want to be tainted by the riches and the power he saw about him-even though they might help India along her difficult road. Said he: "It is just like the man who possesses many valuables . . . being constantly afraid of losing or somebody stealing them . . . Possibly he might be a more comfortable man if he didn't have them ... In the terms that the world measures...
...just went about telling us, 'Don't be afraid. Why are you afraid? What can happen to you?'. . . And we realized with a tremendous lifting of the burden that was within us that there was really nothing to fear. .. Even the poor peasant straightened his back a little . . . Fear was something we had created . . . We have lost all fear of external aggression . . . unless of course we ourselves go to pieces. Then it would be our fault...
...That's Heaven . . ." Ed roamed around Moscow for ten days. He said it was 90% slums. He said pregnant women worked on paving jobs in the streets while army officers walked around. Caviar, he said, cost twice as much in Moscow as it did in Indianapolis. Ed even took in a ballet. He couldn't help laughing, he said, when he looked down from a box on Ambassador Kirk, who couldn't sit in a box because of the five Russians who were always trailing him. "He had to sit in the orchestra," said Ed, "because there...
...France again, laden with gifts for the 150 children of Maillé. Girard Hale also planned another surprise for the kids, a bus trip to Paris. Said he: "It may be one of the few times they'll ever visit Paris. The people of Maillé hardly ever even go to Tours, which is only 15 miles away...
...medieval Tower of London where Anne Boleyn's head had rolled. "At night," said one of the Tower's famed Beefeaters last week, "we heard awful noises in the casements." Yeoman Quartermaster Thomas Johns set out four traps, and what he caught was enough to startle even that grizzled veteran of two wars. "I thought," he said, "I was in the wilds of Borneo. I saw nothing like this one in India." The quarry was a huge and ferocious cat whose writhing body "nearly filled the two-foot cage...