Word: forehead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern weapons. When finally they broke through, there was not one among us who had not sustained some injury or other. The brutes killed my 90-year-old father and when my young son rushed to his defense, they speared him to death. I had been injured on my forehead and gushing blood had made me partly blind. A young, cowardly Moslem attacked me from behind with a hatchet, injuring my foot. Before I fell and fainted, I saw some Moslems carrying away my 16-year-old daughter, who put up stiff resistance...
...onlooker marveled: "Everyone must raise his hand to swear that he is a child of God and won't tell lies!" One witness thought he knew what was wanted; he put hand to forehead and intoned: "Heaven is above and earth below. May my conscience be relied upon!" Did a witness know the difference between truth and falsehood? the court wanted to know. When phrased in literary Chinese, this seemed a question for Kant or Confucius. The witness said "No." Did he know the difference between right and wrong? "Oh, naturally," said the relieved Chinese...
...Even the physical characteristics of his face, his Peruvian or Malayan skin, his large black eyes narrowed by intense concentration and as if drinking in the light, his thick and shiny hair, his stubborn forehead, his tightly shut lips conveying an expression of cruelty ... in fact, his whole being suggested that he was of exotic birth. More than once as I looked at him, I thought of ... Montezuma whose practiced hand could in a single day sacrifice three thousand human creatures on the pyramid-like Altar...
Then they entered the house in dignity, fanned by two boys with special fans of deer hair. One sannyasi carried a scepter of gold, five feet long, two inches thick. He sprinkled Nehru with holy water from Tanjore and drew a streak in sacred ash across Nehru's forehead. Then he wrapped Nehru in the pithambaram and handed him the golden scepter. He also gave Nehru some cooked rice which had been offered that very morning to the dancing god Nataraja in south India, then flown by plane to Delhi...
...holy fire attended by a Brahman priest. There, while several thousand women chanted hymns, the ministers-to-be and constitution-makers passed in front of the priest, who sprinkled holy water on them. The oldest woman placed dots of red powder (for luck) on each man's forehead...