Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Tory government was unmoved by outcries abroad or protests at home. It had steeled itself to a hard course and engaged on a dangerous gamble. By exiling Archbishop Makarios to an Indian Ocean island without legal process, and ruthlessly stamping out terrorism, it hoped to create a "fertile vacuum" in which new, more compliant leaders would emerge. Karaolis had killed a cop, Demetriou had wounded a British businessman; they must...
...1890s, a series of undergraduate discussion groups extended back into the 18th century, including the Hasty Pudding Club, organized to "argue and eat corn meal mush." Meeting secretly in a student's room, one group, the "Society of Resident Graduates," in 1792 argued "Freedom for the West Indian Negros," "The Principal Design of Conversation," and "Does a Theatre Corrupt the Morals of the People" The Harvard Union (of 1831) stands out briefly among a number of similar ephemeral groups...
...meeting is sponsored by the Harvard-Delhi Student Project, which is helping to finance Indian village development undertaken by Indian students at the University of Delhi. In November, the Delhi Project sponsored a speech by V. K. Krishna Menon, chief Indian delegate to the United Nations. The undergraduate group is also working with Indian students in the Cambridge area as part of a program to bring Indians and Americans together in a joint undertaking...
Married. Juanita Deere, 34, altar-prone Creek Indian oil heiress, famed for giving birth to a 9½lb. son by Caesarean section at the age of eleven, daughter of the late Woosey Deere, reputedly the richest Indian woman of the hard-pressed '30s; and John Jackson, 30, Negro service-station attendant; she (by her own count) for the 18th time, he for the second; in Tulsa...
...painter educated at Harrow," made up the bulk of the deficit. Tambi pays his contributors "according to need" at a top rate of $1.25 a line, but most of the poets in the first issue donated their poems. A soft-spoken man who chainsmokes Pall Malls and dresses in Indian fashion, Tambi bills his own services at $80 a week, agrees with T. S. Eliot that every poet should have a job other than poetry...