Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry M. Brooks, 61, described on the teletype as "6 ft. 1, heavyset, squarejawed, with iron-grey hair and heavy mustache." For 30 years, Brooks had been a respected citizen of Greenwich, Conn, and a well-known figure in Wall Street. He was a member of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club, a Harvard...
India's main weapon so far has been a tight blockade. Machinery and trucks labeled for Hyderabad have piled up in Bombay. In Hyderabad imported food supplies have dwindled and the price of potatoes has soared to $1 a pound. The airline that connected Hyderabad with Indian cities is suspended. The Nizam's officials admit privately that Hyderabad might not be able to survive another six months...
Next afternoon, unshaven and dressed in rags, I joined some 30 shabbily dressed Paraguayans in the unpaved street before Asuncion's decaying prison close by the river front. An old man carrying a package of medicines for his son got me past the swarthy Indian guard...
Journey into Squalor. Her work began in Philadelphia, when she was "about 18." It was then that she heard of a wealthy lady who had founded a new Catholic order. Katharine Drexel, daughter of a Morgan partner, had been troubled by the squalor of Indian life she had seen on a trip through the West. In Rome later, she begged Pope Leo XIII to do something about it. "Why don't you become a missionary yourself?" the Pope replied. Katharine Drexel did, and gathered together in the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament a group of women who devoted their...
...mile-by-mile description of the road over the Tuscarora Mountains to Chambersburg and the British military base at Carlisle; a dozen scenes of frontier crowds praying and dancing and singing; a spate of Irish and Scotch dialects; a history of the settlements, Indian wars and politics of western Pennsylvania; a long, rapturous recipe for duck soup...