Word: hinde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...struggled desperately with the ghost of Subhas Chandra Bose. On the birthday of the onetime Congress party leader who had gone off to lead a Jap-sponsored Indian army and die in a Jap plane crash, thousands of Hindus jammed downtown streets shouting Bose's battle cry, Jai Hind, (Victory to India...
...princess as a prince could wish. They had only one child, a daughter called Shahnaz ("the pet of the Shah"), born in October 1940. Thereafter, it became apparent that the Shah's tastes were quantitative rather than qualitative Fawzia, whose family with a century of rule be hind it looked upon the Iranian dynasty as an upstart, was enraged when her husband publicly brought other women into the Gulistan Palace. She consulted an American psychiatrist in Bagdad, and then came back to Teheran with a stern message for her husband. Things were better for a little while...
Angry crowds gathered in Dalhousie Square, shouted "Jai Hind!" ("Victory to India"), the battle cry of India's nationalists. They lay across railway tracks to stop trains, persuaded bus, tram, taxi and ricksha drivers to join them, forced shops to close down. They put up road blocks, set afire British and U.S. military vehicles, stoned Tommies and G.I.s, tossed bricks and a hand grenade into the Thanksgiving dance of the American Officers' Club at Karnani Estates. Adding to the city's chaos was a municipal workers' strike (for more wages) which threatened the water supply...
General Patton is a great commander and an honest man. Every time that he has gotten into trouble with me public it has been because he stood up on his hind legs and told the truth. The truth always hurts...
Third prize went to Franklin C. Watkins, who won a Carnegie first against tougher competition in 1931. His Portrait of J. Stogdell Stokes succeeded in looking stodgy without being academic. Honorable mentions included Samuel Rosenberg's geometric portrait of Israel; O. Louis Guglielmi's The River, featuring hind views of three girls looking at the water, and The Quarantined Citadel, by onetime Etonian Philip Evergood. Evergood describes Citadel as "a vicious painting which represents an imaginary island where military aggressors are dumped so that they can play...