Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tale from the Plains. As the monsoon came to Calcutta, thousands stood in line before food shops and were drenched. Because of the shortage of food in the suburbs, whole families moved in and camped on sidewalks in front of grain shops. In Bijapur district, near Bombay, famine was so severe that livestock died. In Bombay five persons were reported injured in a quarrel over a piece of bread. In the Punjab farmers hoarded their grain, thereby made the bad situation worse. (The price of Punjab village brides had gone up, a sure sign of spreading inflation.) Some maharajas...
...probed and searched. The bluejacket wondered what was wrong, why he had been called to the "nut factory." His service record in the surface ships was clean. The psychiatrist's questions gave him no clues. But his answers and his scores in the preliminary written tests told the tale. The sailor was healthy, intelligent and eager for sub duty, but he was not the type. Within the hour, he was off the Base, his papers marked "immediate sea duty...
From all accounts, a dentist in Alaska has no time for thumb-twiddling. Young Dr. Maxwell Kennedy of Nome found that the "Eskimos hound me to death" (TIME, Dec. 28). Oral Hygiene last week carried the tale of plump, 60-year-old Dr. William Franklin Good, who, until the Japs came, spent his summers practicing from a sailboat and found customers waiting on the docks from Ketchikan to Kiska...
...long battle of airfields from Clark Field in the Philippines to the bastion of Australia. This week the story was out, in a new book by War Correspondent W. L. White (They Were Expendable, TIME, Sept. 28). Using the formula that was such a sensational success in the tale of the PT boats in the Philippines, Author White lets Frank Kurtz and his crew talk of those dark, terrible days...
...Indian schools to hear their program. They generally get a brief resume of what Joe Yellow Horse, Chauncy Matlock, Sleeping Rain or some other Indian boy is doing in the Pacific or North Africa. They hear the latest Indian gossip, news on Indian affairs, many a tall tale from an elder brave...