Word: maharaj
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hyderabad, which was never really out of India, is now indisputably part of India. There have been no terrible outbreaks of communal violence. The Nizam, who capitulated in four days and 13 hours, satisfied the demands of his ego for at least a token fight. Said Lieut. General Sir Maharaj Rajendrasinghji, the Indian generalissimo: "It is not our job to hurt anybody who is law-abiding." This presumably included the Hyderabad army. There were no casualty reports (by the best available count, twelve Indian soldiers were killed...
...Bhopal's followers was the Maharaj Rana of Dholpur who has saved more animals than Bikaner has shot. Dholpur keeps a big preserve where all animals are safe. He also consults holy men on his prospects of getting a male heir...
...swarthy, sixtyish, learned Balliol-graduate Sir Maharaj Singh, one of India's principal delegates to the Assembly. Author, statesman and educator, Sir Maharaj taught himself ventriloquism some 30 years ago (to amuse his children). Last week, with all the exuberance that earned him an Oxford "half-blue" in featherweight boxing and made him a top Indian tennis "champion, Delegate Singh offered to show off his talent before a meeting of a trusteeship subcommittee. To help him he had a brand-new stooge named Uno, just purchased for $85 in Times Square...
...This fellow's still new," explained Sir Maharaj, "we haven't got quite used to each other yet." Committee members, press and public jammed the committee room. Sir Maharaj and Uno were just about to go into their routine. (Sample, as seen later by a TIME reporter-Singh: "Who're you?" Uno: "Oh, I'm Uno." Singh: "Do you have to use many languages out there?" Uno: "Oh, I get along on me Irish.") Then who should stalk in but austere U.S. Delegate John Foster Dulles. He whispered a discreet, wholly unofficial word in Singh...