Word: shan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...route goes through jungle for the first two days down to the Shweli. Little by little, the jungle opens, gives way to rice paddies and Shan villages...
...forces of progress were on Professor Angold's side., Besides, the British gypsies were more assimilated than most other gypsy stocks. But progress and assimilation might have a stiff tussle with a people which still preserved its folk wisdom in a six-line catechism: Miro dado, soskei shan creminor kaired? (My father, why were worms made?) Miro chabo, that puo-baulor might jib by hailing lende. (My son, that moles might live by eating them.) Miro dado, soskei shan puvo-baulor kaired? (My father, why were moles made?) Miro chabo, that tute ta mande might jib by letting lende...
...press* on the sundeck of Quebec's Citadel, was how to find enough work for all hands in the Pacific. Winston Churchill had come to Quebec alarmed at the U.S. Navy's rambunctious theory that it could finish the Pacific war by itself. Said he: "You shan't have all those good things to yourselves. You must share." Final results at Quebec seemed to promise just this...
...with things as they are it's quite clear that we shan...
Last week he said: "If I can't get my services accepted by the Chinese consul general in Canada, I'll go directly to China. I could be in India in 48 hours. How, I shan...