Word: hinterlander
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pamphlets and the rallying cries of "Quit India," "Long Live Gandhi," "Long Live Nehru," "Hindus and Moslems are brothers" showed that, although driven underground, the Congress party machinery was still functioning. Lesser-known and unjailed party workers left the cities to organize strikes, sabotage and boycotts in the hinterland. After 20 years of instilling hatred of British domination in the minds of peasantry and middle-class intellectuals, they worked in well-seeded fields...
...French-Canadians are war slackers, or that they are afraid to fight. But it is true that, after being voted down more than 2-to-1 in a national "conscription" plebiscite (TIME, May 11), they are not yet prepared to bow to the will of the majority. In one hinterland village a mob stormed the jail to release two home-service army deserters; in another village a mob threatened, with pitchforks, soldiers seeking an R.C.A.F. deserter...
Jacare took to his new task with simple dignity. He had always idolized a legendary jangadeiro called "Dragon of the Seas" who kidnapped slaves, hid them safely from posses in the hinterland. If the Dragon could free slaves from slavery, figured Jacare, he could free the jangadeiros from exploitation. And the film's publicity would help...
From the black-windowed, sandbag-roofed Manhattan offices of the New York Federal Reserve Bank last week came a jolting report: in February, New York City department-store inventories were 49% above a year ago. Manhattan is the No. 1 U.S. shopping center, but hinterland stores are buying too: total U.S. department-store inventories are well over the 100 mark (1923-25 = par), against 73 a year ago, 54 at depression's bottom...
West of the Alleghenies, the Episcopal Church's membership is less than 1% of the population. Though Episcopalians in the East are thought fashionable, in the hinterland they are sometimes looked upon as a little queer...