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Word: sachdeva (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...shouted Janata supporters outside a counting station in New Delhi. When told that their candidates were winning decisively, the spectators hugged the messengers of the good news. Said Om Prakash, 26, a cloth merchant: "The election result shows that dictatorship cannot acquire any roots in this country." Declared M.C. Sachdeva, 27 a government clerk. "To my generation, freedom began today, not in 1947." The Janata victory, added a fire brigade employe "has come mythical Lord Rama descending to earth to destroy the evil demon Indira...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A Powerful Vote for Freedom | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

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