Word: indias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish doctors) and they have a hard time adjusting to the land. Many try chicken farming, going about it in that highly scientific Teuton way which makes the Polish and Russian Israelis guffaw. They say that when one yecki found a sick chicken he sent all the way to India for a serum, inoculated every one of his flock. They tell of a yecki with an old dry cow who asked a Polish Jew to sell it for him. The Pole found a Russian Jew to whom he said: "This is a fine young cow; she gives six liters...
...loved to goggle at the late Fiorello La Guardia, a squat fire hydrant of a man who gushed forth sympathy, abuse and ideas on everything under the neon lights. India, without the help of the kind of press that spread the Hat's fame, is learning to pay the same kind of attention to Premier Nehru. He is the nurse and guardian of modern India, orphaned at birth by the death of its father, Gandhi, and the banishment of its mother, the British...
Nurselike, Nehru flitters up & down India, watching, scolding, praising, teaching. His Western-trained mind knows how much India has to learn-and how quickly. The civil service, the press, the schools are in no shape to do the job. Nehru is the thin link between the 300,000,000 people and their government. Recently, Nehru took a trip to Madras province which typified the work of a unique statesman in shaping a new nation. He traveled 3,500 miles by plane, made twelve ex tempore speeches and 18 public appearances, showed himself to 1,000,000 people. He displayed wild...
...Olympic Games, a Boy Scout bearing the national standard of Chile fainted dead away from the heat. And at the practice field where the Olympic athletes themselves were warming up, India's six foot three-inch Gurnam Singh panted and pined openly for his native Patiala (where the temperature hits 120°). Said Singh: "In England 90° is equal to 112° in India. It's the terrible humidity...
...India has long held the field hockey title, just as the U.S. has usually swept the river with its eight-oared crew-and the University of California crew will probably do it again...