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Word: raj (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hunches for a good part of last year, relying on our All-Americans to win the matches," Tri-Captain Raj Mahidhara said. "This year we can't depend on names alone. We all have a purpose on the team and we all have to fill...

Author: By Daniel E. Kosowsky, | Title: Racquetmen Dominate Pair | 12/6/1990 | See Source »

...begins one of Rudyard Kipling's most famous poems, which reads as if it were written for the British raj. In fact, this hortatory verse was addressed to Teddy Roosevelt with a clear message: having won the Spanish-American War of 1898, the U.S. should claim the Philippines as a colony. Thus Kipling, as author Christopher Hitchens dryly observes, was "John the Baptist to the age of American empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brit Kitsch BLOOD, CLASS, AND NOSTALGIA by Christopher Hitchens | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

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