Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weak to move. Water had become so revolting to him that he found it hard to drink enough for his needs. On the fifth day he got his second wind at starving: his system had temporarily given up hope for food. Vichy water had stopped the nausea. By day Gandhi basked in the sun; by night he stared at the stars from Lady Thackersey's veranda. His eyes sank further into his head, his collarbone stuck out like a harness. But as he began the second week of his fast he was cheerful. His wife, released from jail...
...doctors noted that the wizened, little brown body had failed with amazing rapidity but was organically sound. They ventured a guess that it might survive its "unconditional, irrevocable" three- week fast. India's Hindu millions who look on Gandhi as little less than a god, prayed that it would...
...Gandhi's romantic disciples thought he would die. A German Jewess, Dr. Margaret Spiegel, having fled to him from Germany and the Nazis, went on a counter fast. She thought he would end his fast because "he cannot let me die." On the third day another disciple told her she was making Gandhi worry, persuaded her to take a glass of milk and two oranges. A Buddhist monk. Tan Yu-shan, began a sympathy "fast unto death...
...Indian affairs with me although he has been living with me for the last two years. All of a sudden, when my article appeared in the "Critic," he thought it his duty to reply. Instead of meeting my thesis honestly, he made a poor reply--a eulogistic daubery of Gandhi...
...critic a few days ago told me, that he is willing to revise his idea of Gandhi's leadership. . . The second Round Table Conference objectively showed Gandhi's abject failure as a leader. Yet the critic comes again with a reply stating it as an "unassailable fact," that Gandhi is the greatest leader...