Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tale has it that a peasant came to the city, approached a policeman, and asked him the way to Stefania Street. "It's not Stefania Street now," answered the cop, "it's been changed to Voroshilov Street." The peasant then asked how to find Italia Street. "You go that way," said the policeman, "but its new name is Vishinsky Street." The peasant inquired about Vigado Square. "You'll pass it on your way," said the policeman, "but you must call it Molotov Square." Some time later the policeman, crossing a bridge over the Danube, saw the peasant...
Nationwide abolition of untouchability will not go into effect until the constitution does. It would not end the problem. One assemblyman remarked: "It is like declaring lying unconstitutional. Everyone says he's against it, but still it goes on and no law by itself can stop...
...Bhangi colony, where municipal sweepers are lodged and where Mahatma Gandhi once lived, one turbaned Untouchable said: "Thirty years ago, if I entered a shop, I had to stand apart from other customers; if I touched a piece of cloth, I had to buy it. Now I can go anywhere and my children go to school, but I am still a sweeper, and my pay of 65 rupees a month does not buy me what 20 used to." The sweeper had not even heard of the Constituent Assembly, which was sitting only three miles from his mud hut. Told about...
...Prime Minister," Churchill rumbled, "where are the rifles which, on V-E day, armed 4,600,000 troops and Home Guards of this country alone? Are they in oil? ... There is no difficulty in keeping rifles. They do not go sour, like milk . . . What has happened to those latest models of tanks...
...González de Claro, younger daughter of Chile's President Gabriel González Videla. Finally, the servants let her in. "Señora Rosita," gasped Carmen Rosa Soto de Varas, wife of an Infantry School noncom, "I couldn't get an interview with your father ... Go right away and tell him the military want to overthrow him. I know it because my husband is one of them. He told me the whole thing...