Word: pany
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was talk of crisis in Mexico City last week. Architect Mario Pani and Engineers Héctor Maganda and Armando Oseli separately warned that the capital was sinking. Through thousands of wells, they said, subterranean water was being pumped out of the old dry lake bed on which the city stands. As a result, the whole city sank more than seven inches last year. The Palace of Fine Arts, already six feet lower than its original level, settled still more. Grades changed as Mexico City drank up its own footing...
...wiggled my way under a lorry, not caring that I was lying in a mess of dirt and oil and blood. A wounded and emaciated Indian soldier, more exhausted than I, crawled under beside me and with the eyes of a stricken animal gazed at me, crying softly: Tani, pani.' But of course I had not a drop of water to offer him." The troops attacked for three whole days until they broke the encirclement...
...Primal Energy, Jesus, and Allah as well -the same Rama with a thousand names. A lake has several ghats [bathing-places]. At one the Hindus take water in pitchers and call it ' jal' ; at another the Mussulmans take water in leather bags and call it 'pani.' At a third the Christians call it 'water...