Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Recalling the day his family arrived in Denver from New Orleans, Ed said: "I met them at the airport, installed them in a motel and took off that same afternoon for an assignment in Montana." After that he kept on traveling over the Rocky Mountain states, covering regional politics, Indian affairs, Colorado's uranium boom and the birth of the U.S. Air Force Academy, as well as week-to-week news breaks. To help his children trace his travels, Ed hung an airlines map of the U.S. on the living-room wall at home. Each trip, RM lined...
...empire, the path of Britain's lifeline to Australia and the Far East was studded with steppingstones in the form of British bases. Since World War II, the demands of Asian neutralism and nationalism have gobbled up one British naval or air station after another in the Indian Ocean area until only two remain between Africa and Singapore, both in the Dominion of Ceylon, and both now doomed like the others to be sacrificed to local nationalism...
Last week Britain announced plans for a new steppingstone in the Indian Ocean: the island of Gan in the Maldives, a group of coral islands (pop. 93,000) some 400 miles southwest of Ceylon whose sultans have basked under the protection of the British navy since 1795. The rent (amount undisclosed) Britain has agreed to pay for Gan should provide a long-needed shot in the arm to the all but dormant Maldivian economy (now mainly dependent on shipments of fish to Ceylon). As for Britain's chances of hanging on to her new base-"It is difficult," said...
...startling spectacle of the Indian fakir snuggled down on his bed of nails, or the martyr thrusting his hand into the flames, has often been explained by medical science on the basis of emotional disturbances (usually hysteria). In other cases, failure to react to pain may be due to severe mental retardation or physical damage to the nervous system. But there remains a baffling group of individuals to whom none of these explanations can be applied, and who show no reaction to pain of virtually any kind...
...Indians who were fighting Cortés have been glorified by many historians; nevertheless, these books make clear that the battle was between the armed faith of Christian Europe and a cruel empire whose ceremonies seemed to the Spanish soldiers a bloody, blasphemous parody of the Mass. Inland, the conquistadors first met the strange Mexican-Indian priesthood, men whose hair was caked with human blood and whose temple floors were clogged with it. The Christians had no hesitation in breaking their idols. Even then they had no notion that in the city of Tenochtitlán as many...