Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discovered the Frisbee, embraced vodka and popularized credit cards and garage-door openers. The 1964 student protests at Berkeley sparked passions on campuses across the country. Detroit and Newark symbolized black rage, but Watts was the first ghetto to burn. Three years before Wounded Knee fell under siege, Indian militants fought for possession of Alcatraz. Almost every state had its draft riot, hippie commune and Black Panther spokesman-but the phenomenon that each represented surfaced first in California...
Just Nonunion. The strike, which has been dubbed "the Grunwick siege" by pro-Tory London papers, began as a relatively simple labor problem. Last August Mrs. Jayaben Desai, a tiny Indian immigrant from Tanzania, walked off her job as a film processor in protest against the low wages ($42.50 a week), poor working conditions and compulsory overtime imposed on the predominantly Asian work force by Grunwick's Anglo-Indian managing director George Ward. With six other employees, Mrs. Desai joined the Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff (APEX), a moderate, nonmilitant, white-collar trade union...
...mile. Baggage checkout: fast. Hotels/Motels: ample. Ten within 10 min. Amenities: excellent. Lounges pleasant and comfortable. Good coffee shop open until 7:30 p.m. (beef tacos, $2.50); crowded self-service cafeteria. Best restaurant: Crossroads West. Six bars, most open 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Shopping facilities: offbeat. Western and Indian wares. Spanish shop, flower stall with fresh-cut Colorado varieties. One barbershop. Private changing rooms with basins and toilets. Extra-long lockers and free plastic bags for skis. First-aid station; 24-hr, ambulance. Overall: pleasantly oldfashioned...
...year is 1972, and Colonel "Tusker" Smalley (Indian Army, ret.) is ensconced at an out-of-the-way Indian hill station called Pankot. Unlike most of the British, Tusker never pulled up stakes. He and his wife Lucy, "the last survivors of Pankot's permanent retired British residents," coexist amiably with most of the natives-but not so well with each other. Tusker's irascibility has been honed by questionable health and the approach of his 71st birthday. Lucy, whose chief diversion in recent years has been local showings of Hollywood movies, has begun to feel that life...
...trip could be more dangerously turbulent than the truck ride). What is certain is that for the rest of this long movie we watch two trucks with four truck drivers negotiate some difficult roads in the rain. Along the way they encounter such exciting obstacles as an Indian who makes faces at them, a bridge that swings when the wind blows, a tree that has fallen across the road, and a gang of completely unbelievable guerillas...