Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Neighbor Mexico was hopping mad, and the U.S. was caught with its hand in the jam jar. The list of U.S. and Mexican labor, immigration, health and customs laws that had been fractured would be as long as a rebozo (traditional shawl of Mexico's Indian women). Worst of all, from the Mexican point of view, responsible U.S. officials had outrageously violated the signed agreement of Feb. 21, 1948, designed to control the flow of seasonal labor and protect Mexican workers from exploitation and prejudice in the U.S. (The February agreements barred bracero labor in Texas because...
...where no agreement seemed possible. She brought flights of oratory to earth with such innocent remarks as "I am probably the least learned person around this table, so I have thought of this article in terms of what the ordinary person would understand." In a two-hour wrangle with Indian and Russian delegates, she insisted that such words as "caste" and "class" were "outgrown." "We admit caste and class distinctions do exist, but we don't try to emphasize them," she declared firmly...
...weakening of the Commonwealth, which the U.S. would once have welcomed, was now a matter of grave U.S. concern. Who, for example, was now responsible for defense and order in the key strategic areas around the shores of the Indian Ocean? Burma had stepped from the Empire into chaos. Other lands might go the same way. Little to stop them was apparent last week in London...
Died. George McConnell, 93, oldtime Indian fighter and baseball player (legend credits him with originating the curve ball); in Los Angeles. Some 70 years ago, Billiard Fan McConnell reputedly discovered that "English" could be used on baseballs, then organized a ball team that was undefeated for several seasons before batters caught...
...took one heliuva good football game to set the fuse. Then the firecracker burst brilliantly, violently, and briefly. Between halves, the near-nude Indian cheerleaders led their partisans out of the stands to set up a tepoe. A few of the locals offered half-hearted opposition, which resulted in a disruption of the band formations and little else...