Word: trained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quite suddenly, Britons were more popular than they had ever been in India. In Calcutta, Hindus dragged eleven Moslems from a train, hacked them to death. At Amritsar 120 were killed, hundreds injured in rioting between Sikhs and Moslems. But none attacked the once-hated British, who could thank two men for the heightened prestige of their graceful exit...
...morning, the dream blonde turns up in real life. Followed by an unmistakably lethal type, she boards Mitty's commuters' train and persuades him to protect her. By now Mitty isn't sure which world he is at large...
...Einem's six-act opera was full of clashing, dissonant stridencies, which reflected his devotion to Hindemith, Stravinsky and Mussorgsky, and perhaps his admiration of Duke Ellington. Temperamental, giant-sized (6 ft. 6 in.) Conductor Otto Klemperer found it troublesome to rehearse. He packed his bag, boarded a train for Switzerland. Klemperer's Hungarian assistant was rushed in to take his place...
...misfit hand-me-down from the British. The paranoid touchiness in all the Indian factions, but especially in Pakistan's Moslems, he likened to what he called group or "institutional delusions" throughout the world, to be corrected only by "a discipline whereby the normal man can train himself to be something healthier than a normal man, to become an athlete of reality...
President Conant left last night by train for an extended vacation and speaking tour that will take him through the Canadian Rockies, down the West Coast and part way back through the far western states before he returns to Cambridge for the opening of the fall term in September...