Word: fastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most disquieting news from India today," cried he, "is the fast which Mahatma Gandhi has entered. I wish we could notify him as soon as possible of a settlement between the two Dominions." Much affected, the Council decided to meet as often as possible until a solution was reached. Then they went to lunch. Next day, Pakistan's crescent-bearded Foreign Minister, Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan, replied to the Indian. For 3¼ hours (breaking Andrei Vishinsky's U.N. record of two hours), he spoke without script, working only from notes passed up on an assembly-line basis...
...Mohammed were asked to sit down together and talk things over. When the two posed for the photographers (see cut) an Indian bystander said: "They are really very good friends, you know." By week's end, tension in the two countries had abated and Gandhi ended his fast (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...will not help Moslems at this critical juncture," said Patel. Later he became bolder, and darkly hinted at open war with Pakistan. Most Sikhs and many Hindus applauded Patel. Obliquely, Gandhi observed that Patel had "thorns on his tongue." Without warning, one day last week the Mahatma began to fast...
...Gandhi was in no condition to fast for long. (His longest heretofore: three weeks. His most recent fast, last September, lasted only 73 hours.) Worried doctors who hovered over him thought he might not live beyond two weeks...
...show is funny, most of it is fresh, and all of it is fast-moving. It has nice tunes and even nicer dancing. But what really gives it the New York Look are Arnold Horwitt's extremely lively lyrics and brightly satirical skits. One funny ditty has all those who ruin the city's sleep-street diggers, taxi drivers, milkmen, newsboys-bawling...