Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resident high school teacher in Santarem, 400 miles west of Belem, for five years, with plans to return, I am delighted to refer those interested in my trip to your summary and (for me) nostalgic views of such colorful cities as Belém and Manaus...
...being built in Indian factories by Indian workmen. Yet not long ago, when a plane landed for the first time in a district of northern India, peasants tried to feed it hay. The old ways die hard: recently a Westernized and highly educated dean of an Indian law school kept postponing his flight to the U.S. until an auspicious date was selected for him by his astrologer...
Under Nehru, India has had generally sound government, a stable currency and a working democracy through its years of independence. The press is free, the restraints of free speech and assembly are minimal. Forty million Indians attend school and college, and the number is to be doubled in five years. If any one man can claim the credit, it is Nehru, and all Indians know it. Scarcely anyone now remembers the 1947 warning of Sir Winston Churchill that "we are turning over India to men of straw, like the caste Hindu, Mr, Nehru, of whom, in a few years...
...life Lydia wanted to dance. Even before her family moved to France from Poland when she was seven, she was already attending the Warsaw Opera Ballet school. Ten years later when the Nazis overran France, Lydia's father Wladimir became a Resistance chief for the French underground's F-1 foreign-born unit, and the 17-year-old Lydia became an invaluable spy. Each day she played the role of an ingenuous, admiring schoolgirl watching Nazi troop movements; at night, from the Lipskis' Pigalle apartment, "Cipine" radioed her findings to London. Handy with pen and brush, Lydia...
...their Pigalle apartment, Lydia was soon joined by her father, who had also survived German internment (her mother had been shot by the retreating Nazis on their last day in Warsaw). In Paris, father and daughter picked up the pieces of their old life. Lydia enrolled in a dancing school in 1948, two years later was among the few chosen from hundreds of applicants for the Folies chorus, has been there ever since. Says Lydia: "It's not the Warsaw Opera Ballet, but I love it." Asked where she would pin her Legion ribbon, Lydia answered...