Word: fingerings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thus be on the lookout for both the Chinese and the Pakistanis. Polyandry is the most widespread feature of Ladakh society; when a woman marries a man, she often marries his younger brothers also. When the eldest brother dies, the widow can divorce the younger husbands by tying her finger to a finger of the corpse, then snapping the string...
Imperialist Product. Red China's first attempt to bite off an Indian finger came after its subjugation of Tibet, when it repudiated the so-called McMahon Line, the border arranged between British India and Tibet in 1914, and named after the head British negotiator. Running across N.E.F.A. from Bhutan to Burma, the line set the border at the watershed at the crest of the highest mountains. But the Red Chinese declared the McMahon Line an "illegal, null and void" product of "British imperialism," claimed that the actual border ran along the southern foot of the mountains...
...longer afford to let China gobble up any more Indian territory. If India cannot throw the Chinese out, it must hasten its defense buildup to deter Red China from any more land grabbing. If it does not, India may find itself in the grip of a five-finger vise...
Philip (wagging his finger and grinning) : Well, don't go and start...
Oscar ran head-on into failure in Chicago last fall when his musical, Kicks & Co., a social fantasy built on a finger-snapping Mephistopheles called Mr. Kicks, collapsed after four performances. "Too factual." observed the Chicago Defender...