Word: jai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seattle last week, 640 leading citizens sat down to feast on mandarin chicken, pineapple chicken, Cantonese beef, steamed rice in lotus leaf, jai choy and other triumphs of Chinese cuisine. Occasion for the feast: New Year's celebration of the Chinese year 4654-the Year of the Monkey. It was also the 40th anniversary of Seattle's China Club, a remarkable example of the American penchant for voluntarily organizing for a high purpose-in this case for Sino-American friendship...
...Kottayam, Palamcottah and New Delhi there was the same enthusiasm. "Graham Ki Jai" (Cheers for Graham), the Indians cried, and Billy acknowledged the enthusiasm Hindu fashion, joining his palms before his face and bowing his head. Presiding over a gathering of 15,000 on the grounds of New Delhi's Y.M.C.A. was an Indian Christian Princess, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, who in 1930 renounced her father's palace in Lucknow, became a Christian (Presbyterian), and is now India's Minister of Health. "Billy Graham," she said, "is one of those rare jewels who tread this earth periodically...
Onetime TV Quizmaster Rudolph Halley, 42, long a student of gambling as chief counsel of the Kefauver Crime Investigating Committee, turned up as a stockholder in a sport and gambling enterprise, to operate in Puerto Rico. The promotion: a $1,500,000 jai alai palace, to be built just outside San Juan; it will seat 3,500 aficionados, provide them with such trimmings as five bars and parimutuel betting windows. Promoter Halley holds 30,000 shares of Puerto Rican Jai Alai, Inc.'s new stock. A Securities & Exchange Commission spokesman allowed that the public, in return for putting...
...heart of the Pyrenees, Basques were playing their national game. Shepherds and schoolboys, fishermen and priests, customs inspectors and smugglers ran each other ragged as they whipped a goatskin-covered ball against any convenient wall and went through the swift gyrations of pelota, that rugged ancestor of jai alai, handball and most other court games...
With the physical set-up arranged, the possibilities become almost unlimited. Twenty years after the installation of the "Memorial Fronton," there would be an Ivy Jai-Alai League, a flourishing Basque Research Center in the department of Romance Languages and Literature, a course in Pari-Mutuel betting, and a huge increase in the University's endowment...