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...most students Lehman Hall is a cash register citadel, the barred castle of the Bursar. It also houses one of the University's most used and least talked-about services--the headquarters of the University telephone system. Operators working below street level answer day and night whenever anyone dials KI 7-7600, and people do that at the rate...
Most certainly we do not have any unhappy citizens over such a name . . . Some people might pronounce the name Kiss Me but ... the correct pronunciation is KI...
...built largely with his own hands. Now the colony, located at Kalaupapa, has a 60-bed hospital, four doctors, a movie theater, beauty shop, Lions Club, American Legion post, Boy Scout troop. The patients, whose only diversion when Father Damien arrived was getting drunk on the juice of the ki tree, have dances and picnics; they learn rug-weaving, block-printing, sewing, raise food under the supervision of the University of Hawaii agricultural extension service...
Grandmother Cloudless. Sir Peter's father was a North Irishman who fought the Maoris in the '70s and finally married a chief's daughter named Ngarongo-ki-tua (Tidings-that-Reach-Afar). She died when Peter was a child and he was brought up by his grandmother, Kapua-kore (Cloudless), who lived to be 102 years old and was, he recalls, "more tattooed than any woman I have ever seen or heard of among my people...
...chairman announced that Article 11 was passed without opposition. The chamber came alive resounding with handclapping and shouts of "Mahatma Gandhi Ki Jai! (Victory to Mahatma Gandhi)." In 1931, Gandhi had said: "I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived." Now, ten months after his death, Gandhi had won a victory he would have cherished as much as India's freedom...