Word: tonga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really now, did TIME [March 15] have to freeze the salt in this part-time sailor's heart by calling Tonga, my 60-ft. oceangoing ketch in which Gregory Peck and Leslie Charteris were holidaying, a "cruiser...
Gregory Peck and Whodunit Writer Leslie (The Saint) Charteris, with their wives, were safe & sound in Miami after weathering a mild (46 m.p.h.) blow. Battling through rough water in their cruiser Tonga they had to anchor offshore and radio the Coast Guard to come and get them...
...symbol of unity at New Delhi was remote, the communal hatred that had forced the partition now faced was real enough. On both sides of the new dividing line, between Pakistan and Hindu India, minority groups wondered what to do. A Moslem tonga (two-wheeled carriage) driver, who had lived 20 years in Delhi, thought of moving to the Punjab. "I will wait and see what happens," he said. "If there is any trouble, I will send for my mother, my sister and my two buffalo, on my farm in the United Provinces." But it would cost...
...cities, as always, the warnings of conflict and disorder were sharpest. Throngs of wartime jobholders were idle. In sweltering Calcutta, it took but the flick of a Moslem cigaret butt against the flanks of a sacred Hindu cow, or a Hindu tonga driver's bumping a Moslem child, to start a fight that would engulf the city. Last week Calcutta was still divided into "Pakistan" and "Hindustan" quarters, with strong points bristling with .barbed wire and machine guns. A Hindu driver dared not cross into a Moslem quarter, nor a Moslem into "Hindustan." In Bombay, where Hindus and Moslems...
Queen Salote, 45, towering (6 ft. 3 in.) ruler of the Central Pacific's tiny Tonga Islands, was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. The Empire's only other queen besides Elizabeth, she aided the Allied cause with a 500-strong handful of native warriors, some $500,000, and two Spitfires...