Word: malays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleek little (39 ft.) yawl Malay had finished the Newport-Bermuda race, "the thrash to the onion patch," the night before. Now she edged through Two Rock Passage into Hamilton Harbor. A small sloop drew abeam, and the Malay's skipper called across the stretch of water: "Who won the race?" The small-boat sailors slid past the yawl's counter and read the name on the stern. Their astonished answer drifted back: "Malay...
Such late-hour ignorance among Malay's crew of six should not have been surprising. One of the drawn-out processes of the Bermuda race is picking the winner. All entrants are classed according to size. Each craft gets a time allowance, figured from a complicated formula but roughly proportional to her length on the water line. Multiplied by the length of the race,-a boat's given time allowance becomes her racing handicap. Long after the race is over, officials on the committee boat are busy penciling through columns of figures to find out who really...
Templer's greatest asset was his unsuspected humanity. He would drop in on a Malay wedding and drink to the health of the bride; sometimes he staggered subordinates by doffing his mask of harshness and leading them ("Louder . . . louder") in some ribald army ballad. Once when a Malay woman complained that her policeman-husband had stopped her allowances, Templer replied in person. Within days the policeman reformed...
...Nation. Templer's favorite theme, in kampong and city alike, was Malayan nationhood. He saw no way of reconciling the 2,000,000 industrious Chinese (who dominate the economy) with the 2,700,000 easygoing Malays (who dominate the politics), except in a sense of common patriotism. To break down the color bar, Templer forced the diehard British to open their posh clubs to men of all races. To give the Chinese a stake in the country, he pressed for (and got) common citizenship, entitling the Chinese to vote. The Malays, appalled, called Templer pro-Chinese, but he turned...
There was little need for the six-man detachment of special police sent over from Singapore, or for the Queen's own bodyguards, as Elizabeth strolled among her subjects in Cocos. There, everybody knows everybody else, and all security arrangements necessary were adequately handled by two Malay dancers who gyrated gracefully before the royal party, sweeping the evil spirits from the path. Even this precaution was excessive, for under the benevolent tyranny of five generations of Scottish copra growers named Clunies-Ross, who own the Cocos and rule there under the eye of the British government as virtual kings...