Word: upping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In speeches to the peasants, Nehru displays none of the perfervid oratory of the demagogue, and could not if he wanted to, since he speaks only one Indian language, Urdu, with any proficiency. Ordinarily he gives long, rambling, extemporaneous talks in English, full of digressions and schoolmasterly asides, that are...
If war comes, China's numbers are not likely to be an overwhelming advantage, for any fighting along the 2,500-mile mountainous border would undoubtedly be limited to units smaller than battalions. Neither the Indians nor Chinese could push any real strength up into or through the Himalayas...
Making her way back to their Pigalle apartment, Lydia was soon joined by her father, who had also survived German internment (her mother had been shot by the retreating Nazis on their last day in Warsaw). In Paris, father and daughter picked up the pieces of their old life. Lydia...
Actually Burma's pols have been electioneering ever since last May, when moonfaced ex-premier U Nu lashed out at army rule (TIME, June 1). U Nu mixes religious meditation and campaign oratory as no one else does: fortnight ago, emerging from 45 days of fasting and contemplation, he...
But when Erlander's Finance Minister submitted his new budget, reiterating Erlander's promise not to raise taxes, he did not explain how the government could cover its expected $490 million budget deficit without an inflationary increase in Sweden's soaring national debt (up from $2.4 billion...