Word: roped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allotted 1% of their transient space (625 rooms) to delegates, but problems still arose. At the dignified Plaza, onetime haunt of the late F. Scott Fitzgerald, bullet-headed Soviet agents looked for a room for Ambassador Andrei Gromyko, turned down one with a balcony for fear a capitalist might rope his way up to the window with a roscoe. China's Victor Hoo knocked at the wrong room at the Waldorf-Astoria, was handed a bundle of laundry, had to exercise the utmost diplomacy to get the woman inside to take it back...
...declaration could not demolish the biggest obstacle to Indian independence-the division between Hindus and Moslems. His statement that "we cannot allow minorities to veto advances by the majority" hit a sensitive spot. Moslem League President Mohamed Ali Jinnah, who demands a separate Moslem state (Pakistan), accused Attlee of "rope-walking," repeated his doctrine that "the Moslems of India are not a minority but a nation, and self-determination is their birthright." Again he threatened civil war if the British and Congress reject Pakistan. If it is a question, he said, of "who can shed the more blood . . . the Moslems...
...pseudonym of a Briton who has worked for many years in India) never tells his readers whether Gopal Singh actually did shoot his wife. But he gives them an exciting description of the religious, tribal, political and human intricacies that make Indian legal procedure as cryptic as the Indian rope trick. They also make Call the Next Witness one of the year's most striking and unusual novels...
...faced about to receive the rope, a Buddhist priest heard him voice a wish "for the Emperor's long life." Then justice, if justice it was, overtook the Tiger of Malaya...
...kind of public character: a U.S. Senator who was also a Hollywood star. Ex-Congressman Rogers (who resigned to join the Army in 1944) prepared to: 1) run for Senator from California; 2) play the title role in a Warner Bros, movie about his late, gum-chewing, rope-twirling father...