Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York-born, Harvard-educated Don Connery, 33, had traveled through more of India than most Indian journalists. He had tramped the dusty roads of Bombay state with Land Reformer Vinoba Bhave, hunted rhino in Nepal, lunched with the Wali of Swat, prowled the lower depths of teeming Calcutta, saw Tibet's Dalai Lama soon after his flight to India. Above all, Connery had concentrated on the complex man who personifies India today. Beyond many interviews-"He is enormously generous with his time and has never refused to answer a question"-Connery time and again crossed footsteps with Nehru...
Smaller Germany. Last week, as these possibilities unfolded, the Germans were increasingly disturbed by the future glimpses they saw. Into Paris, in a Luftwaffe transport, flew Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to see his old friend De Gaulle. Convinced that it is his historic mission to end the disastrous century-old rivalry between France and Germany, Adenauer has committed Germany's future to partnership with France, and he was alarmed by the direction De Gaulle was taking...
...sense of innate superiority re-enforced by seven years of upper-class education at Harrow, Cambridge and London's Inner Temple, where he qualified for the bar. Already a romantic dabbler in the independence movement, Nehru agreed to accompany some oppressed peasants to their primitive village. What he saw there filled him "with shame and sorrow -shame at my own easygoing and comfortable life, sorrow at the degradation and overwhelming poverty of India." He saw his homeland as "naked, starving, crushed and utterly miserable...
...answer: General Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1941 to 1946. How did Historian Bryant know? Because the general -now Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke-had said so in his diary, which is the meat and bones of The Turn of the Tide. As Brooke saw it, the Americans were military chumps and not always well-meaning ones. His boss, Churchill, was a splendid fellow but really just a child when it came to handling a war. In fact "Brookie" had considerably less trouble with Hitler & Co. than with Allied blunderers...
There is no doubt that Alanbrooke was an able old professional who saw service from Southern Ireland through India to France (in 1914 and 1939) and carried on effectively in one of the most demanding jobs of World War II. There is also no doubt that some smallness in his nature made it impossible for him to give his equals-or his betters-their...