Word: nu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when the Moslems protested against his promise to make Buddhism the state religion, he gently reminded them that it was he who had translated their own Koran into Burmese. And while campaigners enthusiastically shrieked epithets at each other as in the old days ("Epileptic!" "Mange-covered leper!"), U Nu took the line that a victory for his opponents "might produce a third World...
...spite of their enforced sabbatical, the politicians had not been idle. From the start, ex-Premier U Nu had the advantage. In the most Buddhist of Buddhist nations, he early won the support of Burma's 50,000 Buddhist monks. He promised that his candidates would "merit admission to the higher abode of Nirvana," regretted the corruption and inefficiency that had brought in army rule, and carefully laid out his ballinatsa, a table loaded with fruits and meats for the spirits to dine...
...materials, e.g., quartz, tungsten, zirconium. An electron gun fires beams that boost the temperature on the surface of the material up to 11,000° F. ; it can cut 100 holes in a straight line across a pinhead, drill a sapphire watch bearing in six seconds, weld a tough nu clear reactor core. Lease price: about $25,000 a year...