Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rose wearily from his teakwood parliamentary bench one morning last week, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru found himself in an unusual and unpleasant position. For the first time in years, the relative handful of Indian M.P.s who oppose Nehru were in a position to attack him where he prides himself most: in his role of high-minded overseer of other nations' misdeeds...
...Received Indian Ambassador G. L. Mehta to discuss next month's visit to this country of Prime Minister Nehru...
Afterward, in defending Carlisle against charges of chicanery, Coach Pop Warner said, "The public expects the Indian to employ trickery and we try to oblige...
Hearing of the cows to be found, more Puritans came from Europe, not all sparse of speech and life like the first. In South Boston Thomas Morton came and shortly gathered up a harem of Indian women and a band of raffish followers. "They also set up a May-pole," says William Bradford, "drinking and dancing about it many days together, inviting the Indian women, for their consorts, dancing and frisking together, (like so many fairies, or furies rather) and worse practices." Morton was finally exported at twelve shillings cost which was divided among Boston's citizens...
...Indian ruggers scored four tries (rugby's touchdowns) against the Crimson, and they left the distinct impression that it would only have cost a little energy to score several more. They ran faster, tackled harder, passed better, and even showed a sounder knowledge of which rules they could safely break...