Word: nair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heavy Sentence. Negotiations finally began four weeks ago, but were kept secret, presumably to save face for the hospital management. Governor Robert Mc-Nair, for whom the strike was becoming a political embarrassment, pushed for a settlement. Incentive came from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which threatened to cut off federal financial assistance to the hospitals if they declined to rehire twelve union members who had been fired. This threat was too much even for Dr. William McCord, president of Medical College Complex and a firm opponent of union recognition...
...NAIR London...
...enlightenment from Indian Author Raja Rao's charming, puzzling tale. The simple surface of the book is the story of a clerk in an Indian village near the sea who wants only to build himself a house and live with his gentle mistress-and of his neighbor, Govindan Nair, who helps him. Beneath that surface runs Govindan Nair's unscrupulous ingenuity and his innocent-seeming philosophy: "Learn the way of the kitten. Then you're saved. Allow the mother cat, sir, to carry you." And still beneath that is the Everlasting Now of the Hindu mind itself...
...Menon belongs to the Nair subcaste of the Sudra caste, lowest of the four main Hindu castes (Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Sudra). According to Hindu tradition, the Brahmans sprang from the head of the deity, the Sudras from the feet...