Word: satyagraha
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...Allahabad meeting went on to show that the Congress is still a kernel of rice in the palm of Gandhi's wizened hand. In the end the Working Committee majority decided to urge India's masses to face the Japanese with Gandhi's historic policy of Satyagraha (resistance by nonviolent non-cooperation...
Death still hovered over the fragile body (which had lost a pound a day for six days) when Mr. Gandhi ended his hunger strike by saying a prayer, quavering a hymn of joy, sipping an ounce or two of orange juice and exclaiming weakly "Satyagraha [Soul Force] has triumphed...