Word: sette
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forbidden Temples. In this sort of land all but a handful of the most fervent idealists turn cynical, and only Communists consistently rejoice. Sett Rao. a hardworking, intelligent government official, who once dreamed that independent India would be "a decent country where decent people can live in decency and some dignity," now says: "I shrug; I laugh; I work. What else is there to do?'' Campbell traveled with Vasagam. another government agent, who was trying to implement the Gandhian ideal of equality for the untouchables. In a typical village he saw the higher castes stand sullenly...
...ELIZABETH BROUGHTON : "She lost her Mayden-head to a poor young fellow ... in 1660 . . . and away she gott to London, and did sett up for her selfe. She was a most exquisite beautie, as finely shaped as Nature could frame . . . and her price was very deare . . . Richard, Earle of Dorset, kept her [but] at last she grew common and infamous and gott the Pox, of which she died ... I remember thus much of an old song...