Word: polyglotism
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...this polyglot of eight million persons, the air is dirty, the traffic cramped, the public transportation inadequate, the slums growing, and the budget falling out of balance. These problems are not peculiar to New York. They are rooted in the very bigness of cities, and the inevitable neglect that comes of growing too fast. Without considering this, many people, vocal in the present campaign, are obsessed with a LaGuardia complex. Pointing to the administration of the great Fiorello, they say that one man, if he is dynamic enough and independent enough of political influence, can solve these problems. They forget...
...polyglot troops had not heard such stirring words for a long time-not at least since dramatic Marshal de Lattre had come to Indo-China (in 1950) to fire his forces to a fervor that might have won the war had he not died (TIME, Jan. 21, 1952) and had economy-minded, casualty-sick France not let its effort degenerate into the grim mess that greeted Navarre...
...sort of bifocal glasses, speaks in the same calm, soft voice, with kindly humor. One of the most learned men in India, he has studied Sanskrit, Persian, Urdu, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Telugu, Kanarese, Malayalam and English, and this array of languages serves him well on his travels through polyglot India. It is not for his learning, however, that India's millions have given their hearts to Vinoba Bhave. They have done that because he, like their beloved Bapu (as they call Gandhi), has brought them a new hope...
Combustion. The atmosphere was the same in most of Cape Province's polyglot cities. In the diamond town of Kimberley (pop. 75,000), the Negro location sprawls along the railroad tracks; white engineers sometimes scare off the matchstick-limbed Negro children who climb up on to the coaches begging for bread, by letting off gusts of scalding steam from their locomotives. A mob of Negro hoodlums spewed out of their beer halls, burning and pillaging saloons and municipal offices. Police killed 13. Earlier, in Port Elizabeth, four whites were murdered simply because they were whites. South Africans have often...
When you climb out of the IRT subway at the Morningside Heights station, you are flanked on one side by the noisy, dirty Amsterdam area of New York, and on the other by Columbia University, a polyglot jumble of tall buildings and patches of grass, watching indifferently over the bustling metropolitan scene...