Word: howrah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, but fear lingered. The death toll of last fortnight's Hindu-Moslem rioting, which may never be finally totaled, exceeded 4,000. While the city's poor went hungry, food rotted on loading platforms. Both Hindus and Moslems, afraid of hostile neighbors, jammed the huge Howrah railway station, mobbed the trains...
...sidewalks of Madras when he feels tired, or to declare himself a saint and sit waiting for disciples by the burning ghats of Benares; or to send out a seven-year-old child with a dead baby dangling from its hand to beg in Calcutta's Howrah railroad station...
Among TIME'S regular readers are three bimbashis (majors in the Egyptian army) whose job is to keep peace in the unpeaceful Sudan. In Wales, believe it or not, lives TIME subscriber Mona Lisa-in Howrah, India, Swami Gangeshananda is a subscriber-and in the far-away Fijis TIME is read each week by President John Quincy Adams...