Word: jodhpur
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...reaction and sentiment at this moment is that of extraordinary pleasure and true enjoyment for being back once again in this land which I have learned so much to love." And as he rode into town with Macmillan, the President saw about him a London that would not change-jodhpur-clad girls riding in Rotten Row; jocular types with pints of bitter outside the Fox and Hound, the Three Kings, the Bunch of Grapes; the predictable athlete pumping along main roads in Kensington, eyes down, elbows high, oblivious to the motorcade...
Escorted to the White House by Vice President Richard Nixon, Nehru, dressed in his customary achkan, high-buttoned coat and salwars (jodhpur-like trousers), jauntily shook hands with Mamie and the President. Said Ike, just back from an 18-day vacation: "It's a privilege and an honor to welcome you to this land-to this house." Next day Ike and Nehru set out to talk in private at the President's Gettysburg farm-which Ike and Mamie had heretofore stubbornly refused to use as headquarters for state visitors...
Bhopalchand Lodha was a happy man. He had good health, a good wife, ten children and an enviable reputation as public-works secretary of India's Jodhpur State. He was also a proud man. When he was suspended from his job for "misconduct in service" on the basis of vague charges, he telephoned the chief minister and insisted on a hearing. During the talk he became giddy. After waiting a month and a half to defend himself publicly, he was extremely tense and complained of feeling ill. Then-according to the American Journal of Psychiatry, reporting the case...
...still rates two wives, a 17-gun salute abroad, 19 guns at home. Because of his high status among Indian princes, and the fact that he approved independence of India despite personal losses, he was named Rajpramukh of Rajasthan, a new state made up of Jaipur, Jodhpur* and 16 other principalities. In his new lifetime job, the maharaja holds the rank, but few of the responsibilities of governor, draws an adequate salary of 18 million rupees ($3,780,000) a year. And, since his job does not require him to stay at home much, he has adapted himself...
...Unlike their neighbors in Jodhpur, the natives of Jaipur have never succeeded in popularizing their local trouser-style in the Occident. As a matter of fact, even in Jaipur, the only people who wear jaipurs are babies...