Word: hari
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...telling of it is made vividly exciting by the use of such standard Hollywood gimmicks as the sliding panels, the catacombs beneath the embassy, the Mata Hari girls, and a big, fat, replusive character for the villain. (It should be pointed out too, that the actor playing Gouzenko is clearly a Michigan boy and is clearly the one to be rooting for. The cards, you see have been stacked in Hollywood...
...girl she dedicated herself to the overthrow of the Chinese Republic and the restoration of her house. She became a Japanese spy, masquerading as a taxi-dancer, a Chinese soldier, even as a Korean prostitute (Chinese officers preferred them). She came to be known as the "Mata Hari of China." When war ended she was captured and three weeks ago sentenced to be shot (TIME, March...
Yoshiko Kawashima said she was born a Manchu princess; she grew up to become a Japanese spy. In her career as the "Mata Hari of China," she posed variously as a Chinese soldier, a taxi driver, a Korean prostitute (Chinese officers always asked for Koreans, she explained), a schoolteacher...
...India appealed to the Security Council to stop Pakistan's "active aggression" against Kashmir (also known as India's "Happy Valley"). Since Kashmir's Hindu Maharaja Sir Hari Singh had aligned his state with India (TIME, Nov. 11), Moslem fighters had continually raided his country. India charged that Pakistan actively assisted the raiders. India's Premier Nehru formally warned the U.N. that, "in self-defense," India might have to invade Pakistan...
...Christianity. Britons in Kashmir began to pack. At the Srinagar Club there were tea dancing and dinner jackets as usual, but the residents were signing up for planes and road convoys that would take them south, like Sir Hari Singh. One trouble was the pet dogs, the Lhassa terriers, Afghan hounds and Pomeranians. Transportation was short, and, it turned out, there were more dogs than Britons on the evacuation list...