Word: subbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...YORK--A security Council sub-committee tonight invited all 51 members of the United National to submit pertinent evidence on the Polish charge that the Spanish regime of Generalissimo Francisco Franco endangers world peace...
...Trivial . . . were your reviewer's rather snide remarks [TIME, April 8] about my "sub-historical" stuff (in Intimations of Eve), and my Tarzanish and Alley-Oopian portrayals; but of greater moment is his deft effort to conceal his ignorance and suggest his erudition with such remarks: "Experts may wish to argue . . . whether the principle of the canoe was grasped before the principle of the baby...
...readers who wrote in to ask if they might tag along when he took hikes" to hunt material for his column. The dozen nervous nature lovers who first showed up grew into a traipsing mob of 500. The unwieldy crowds have long since been formed into 50 or so sub-walks under lay Yosians, but the founder's own weekend walks have remained the big attraction. Nowadays he hits the woodsy trails in New York's parks or just beyond the subway's end with about 75 followers...
What Price Duty? When the local police constable told Sub-Inspector Ghulam Husain that Pyari had died and been cremated the same day, he hurried over to see Gopal Singh's father. "It's my duty," said he mournfully, "to enter . . . a charge of murder against your son." "Would anything convince you that your duty was different?" asked the father. Sub-Inspector Ghulam murmured something about 1,500 rupees ($450). "You can get to hell out of here!" barked the old man. "He'll hang," warned Ghulam...
Gopal's family was rich and powerful, but Sub-Inspector Ghulam realized that, having lost his bribe, he must not lose his case. So he kidnapped a member of Gopal's household and brutally third-degreed him until the servant talked. But Ghulam did not hand over this information to his superiors ("It is an axiom in Indian courts that the police are never to be believed"). He sent it to the dead woman's family, who were as rich and powerful as Gopal...