Word: hills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the eastern India hill resort of Ranchi last week 5,000 people, many in loincloths, some decked out in peacock feathers and silver ankle bangles, listened to a dapper, cigar-smoking orator clad in a natty green bush jacket and gabardine trousers. "Adibasis I" he addressed them. "The most ancient aristocracy of India, the original settlers of this country, the most democratic element in the land are everywhere shouting Jai Jarkhand [Victory to Jungle land]." As the crowd heard their fellow tribesman, Oxford-educated Jaipal Singh, 46, mention Jarkhand, the province they wanted carved out for themselves in east...
Seniors chose John L. Ashbery of Dunster House and Sodus, New York, as class poet; J. Philip Bahn of Kirkland House and Malverne, New York, as orator; George Bluestone of Kirkland House and New York City as odist; and Milton S. Heath, Jr. of Leverett House and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, as Chorister...
Class Chorister--John A. S. Cushman of Leverett House and Rock Hill, Maryland; Glee Club, Choir, Varsity Lacrosse Manager. Peter H. Davison of Leverett House and Washington, Pennsylvania; Glee Club, Choir, Radcliffe Idler. Milton S. Heath, Jr. of Leverett House and Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Gleo Club Secretary and Manager. Varsity Squash, Varsity Tennis, Crimson Key. John K. Blossom of Kirkland House and Worcester; Glee Club, Music Club, House Music Committee...
Afternoons, the Senate dozed through the filibuster fight, but in the mornings, in the big committee rooms on Capitol Hill, Senators worked away at writing bills. There, too, men who disagreed widened their disagreements...
...discontentment from start to finish. Charley and Nancy have been to college; they have a house and a car, even a membership in Sycamore Park's second-best country club. All they want at the moment (besides the vice-presidency) is a newer car, membership in the Hawthorn Hill Club, prep school for the children and, later, when they can manage it, a rather better house...