Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, "really" amounted to something "on the order of 900 million to a billion." The President's source for this surprising figure was his own Budget Bureau, which arrived at it through one of the deftest juggling performances since the late W. C. Fields laid aside his Indian clubs. Congress appropriated $67.3 billion, or $6 billion less than Ike's original $73.3 billion total. But, argued the Budget Bureau, Ike himself cut roughly $2 billion from that $73.3 billion, partly by trimming spending estimates, partly by scrapping or postponing some of the listed programs (e.g., military payment adjustments...
...handshaking and speechifying without once mentioning foreign affairs. Last week, before the Lower House of India's Parliament, Nehru finally spoke on foreign affairs, but confined himself for the most part to a discussion of problems directly affecting India, e.g., Pakistan, Goa, Kashmir. On Hungary, which the 'Indian delegation will in effect ignore when the U.N.'s report comes up this week, Nehru came down ever so softly on the right side: "We do not believe foreign forces should remain there...
Asset or Liability. In Washington, State Department officials have privately advised Indian diplomats that they could hardly expect an economy-minded U.S. Congress to lend a sympathetic ear to a loan request from a nation that has repeatedly gone out of its way to irritate U.S. opinion in foreign affairs; proven friends and allies of the U.S. are having a hard enough time getting...
...album also includes such little-known 19th century works as Hans Gram's The Death Song of An Indian Chief (words by "Philenia, a lady of Boston"), John Knowles Paine's Overture to As You Like It and Overture to Mac beth by Henry Fry, who claimed that his mammoth Santa Claus symphony was the longest "unified" instrumental piece on a single subject ever written. Fascinating history, modest music...
...lightheartedness, El Creeps under Cabot has been an outspoken, effective conciliator between the community's three often-differing ethnic groups: the Indian, the Spanish, and what the Taosenos call the "Anglo." Says Editor Cabot: "Being the only paper in a valley where there are three completely different outlooks is something like sitting on a keg of powder in a dark room. You know that it's dangerous to light a match, but you have to do it to see where...