Word: raj
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strengthening his own authority without bruising any feelings, he announced a reorganization of the U.A.R. government. The first result was to move Hourani as a member of the new central Cabinet out of Syria and into Egypt. A second was to clip the scheming Colonel Abdel Hamid Ser-raj's power as proconsul in Syria by placing him under the Egyptian Minister of Interior, who would take over Serraj's much-prized authority to appoint Syrian provincial governors. That took care of the two most ambitious power seekers in Damascus. In the shuffle Nasser also dropped his second...
...Director Raj Kapoor's hero and heroine are two orphaned children, living with their sadistic prostitute aunt in the slums of Bombay. At her command, they spend their days in the streets and trams of the city, begging money in a squeaky singsong chant. But an old, kindly bootlegger urges them to the slum child's equivalent of the higher life: "You have been given two hands to work with. Start with small things first, and bigger things later...
...with startling virtuosity. From her scrawny, seven-year-old frame, Actress Naaz somehow sums up the whole history of her sex, chattering happily as she works with her brother, huddling against him for warmth, patting his arm in a crisis and reassuring him, "I'll manage it somehow." Raj Kapoor trains his camera on them almost without a break, and they have rewarded him by endowing his film with the gentle luster of a miniature masterpiece...
Since the hot weather began in May more than a thousand have died in India from the heat. In the days of the British raj, civil servants used to flee from the hot plains to the summer capital in the cool hill town of Simla. But Indian civil servants, afraid of the charge that they are unwilling to put up with what the voters must, have to sweat it out in dusty New Delhi...
...decade after the British Raj left India, the rich, bustling city of Bombay was one of the bastions of Prime Minister Nehru's Congress Party. Last week its 131-man Municipal Corporation elected a new mayor, and chose a Communist: a colorless hack named S. S. Mirajkar...