Word: mahatmas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steal 13 bases in one game. That was enough to convince Rickey that his talents were better suited to the front office. Over the next 50-odd years, with the St. Louis Browns, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates, he established himself as "the Mahatma," "the Brain," the brightest innovator, shrewdest trader and smartest judge of talent in the history of baseball...
...acceptance of hunger, disease, poverty and humiliation on the sweltering, swarming Indian subcontinent. This acceptance of fate, buttressed by the humble self-righteous ness that Indians can adopt better than any other human beings, has resulted in a loss of initiative. Bombay Editor Rajmohan Gandhi (a grandson of the Mahatma) sees India's failings not in terms of climate or demography or language barriers but rather in the simple fact that Indians have no will to work...
...Syndicate." Such decisions rest with India's well-entrenched Congress Party, which under Mahatma Gandhi carried the country to independence, and has held power ever since. The Congress holds 370 of the 510 seats in Parliament, and despite an array of eight opposition parties ranging from the Communists to the free-enterprise Swatantra (Freedom) Party, stands in no danger of losing control. The Congress itself embraces a broad spectrum of political coloration, from the virtual Communism of former Defense Minis ter Krishna Menon through the proAmericanism of Railways Minister S. K. Patil to the Hindu mysticism of the party...
...Thomas prescription for the future would be a curious amalgam of proposals by Lyndon Johnson, Mahatma Gandhi, and Milton Friedman, among others, with the single general rule that "I would make it very hard for anyone to live without working...
...guard with burp guns at the ready while a barrage of flares, tracer bullets and phosphorous shells exploded and flashed eerily in the distance. But the singers sang out lustily. The audience, Vietnamese troops with rifles cradled in their arms, listened intently to their next song, Raghupati, one of Mahatma Gandhi's favorite hymns...