Word: fruit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...building, postwar career for the nation. They are talking of the roads that must be built, of the 100,000 miles of railroads New China will need. They know what they want after the war. To go home. Back to the coastal cities, back to good coastal meat and fruit with their rice, to good schools for their children, to business, low prices, trade...
...Lambeth people had plenty to say about what they wanted after the war. A costermonger named Amy said it best. She wanted Lambeth Walk restored, and she had no desire to give up her fruit & "veg" business. She also wanted it understood that from now on her children and grandchildren were to have something more "on the Christmas tree [than] old clothes and boots and that sort of thing...
Between Gandhi's will and that of the Viceroy the final clash had come. Like a Greek tragedy the action moved inexorably toward the climax. A frail little bag of bones had decided he would drink only fruit juice for three weeks, and the whole British Empire quivered. A world that uses and more than half believes in force watched the struggle with divided sympathies and a strange sense of shame...
Civic Pride. In bomb-pocked Chungking, police were inspired by the ninth anniversary of the New Life Movement to enforce a few neglected laws, among them a prohibition against throwing fruit peels on the ground, a requirement that all carriage ponies get a biweekly haircut and manicure...
...Gandhi to die and become a martyr-the consequences would be unpredictable, and they might be fatal to British rule. As for the fasting Mahatma, he was again demonstrating, along with his appeal to millions of Indians, his shrewd sense of politics and his ability to regain prestige on fruit juice, water and an unquenchable spirit...