Word: prasad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Food and Agriculture Minister Ajit Prasad Jain insisted valiantly that there was "absolutely no cause for alarm," planes airdropped rice to remote mountain villages. Grain shipments from the U.S. were stepped up to two shiploads every three days, and government officials announced that they hoped to get the U.S. to deliver all 3,500,000 tons of wheat in two years instead of three...
...Chinese Communist agents streaming past Mt. Everest to spy with impunity. To Indian protestations, Nepalese replied that they have a 500-mile border with Tibet and could hardly be expected to reject Communist China's advances indefinitely. To drive home the point, Nepal's Prime Minister Tanka Prasad Acharya .assembled a twelve-man delegation and headed for Peking to talk business...
...American expert to the planning body follows the earlier naming of Polish professor Oscar Lange to a similar position. The simultaneous use of Western and Communist advisers "shows a type of parity between varying economic views" in the planning for India's economic future, according to Sharada Prasad, an associate Nieman Fellow and news editor of the Bombay "India Express...
...better time. I thank you for this great reception, but you have spoiled part of my happiness by this confusion." Unable to hear this gentle reproof because the mike was dead, the crowd at last dispersed, tired but happy. As Nehru sank into a comfortable seat in President Prasad's car, the police gathered up the casualties and carried them away on stretchers beneath an archway inscribed with the glowing words: "Welcome, Great Messenger of World Peace Nehru...
...newly wed U.S. Ambassador to India John Sherman Cooper, defeated by Kentucky's Democrat Alben Barkley in his run for re-election to the Senate last November, donned striped trousers, inspected a snappy guard of honor before presenting his diplomatic credentials to India's President Dr. Rajendra Prasad...