Word: welling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first "Kilroy was here" message in military history. About 600 B.C., two Greek mercenaries serving in the Egyptian army arrived at the temple and scratched on Ramses' leg an account of their travels upriver as "companions of Psammetichus." Like any other G.I.s, they signed their names as well: for the record, they were Archon and Pelekos...
...India, replied Nehru tartly, since it would mean acceptance of Chinese control over large areas claimed by India. Nevertheless, he added, "the spirit of the Chinese letter is not bad." The Reds also returned ten Indian policemen captured in last month's skirmish in Ladakh, as well as the bodies of nine others killed in the same fight...
Sixty-Two Cheers. Any sign by Nehru that he was determined to resist Chinese encroachment would obviously find his people behind him. In fact, some were well ahead of him. Last week a crowd of 300 university students paraded to Nehru's home demanding the dismissal of unpopular Defense Minister V. K. Krishna Menon because of his "brazenfaced defense of Chinese aggression in Tibet." Menon, who has been in New York attending the U.N. General Assembly, flew home at week's end to give his counsel to Nehru...
Last week the plan's Consultative Committee met in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. That aging nationalist spellbinder, President Sukarno, opened the session with an oration proclaiming that Asians should reject everything from the West except its money. Asian as well as non-Asian delegates found Sukarno's program dated tiresome and useless. "The time has come for us to think less of the colonial past and more of what tasks in fact lie ahead of us," said Ceylon's Finance Minister Stanley de Zoysa, to the biggest applause of the session...
Mahmud thanked his well-wishers and reassured them: "Just now, I did not feel the touch of death. I am filled with calmness. I am traveling to eternity in peace." He submitted once more to the noose. This time the rope held, and Mahmud went to death dancing on air. Again the crowd intoned "Salavat!", and many onlookers threw silver coins at the gallows to cleanse themselves of contamination. The body dangled in Naserieh Square until evening, when it was taken down and buried in the municipal cemetery. Nothing in Mahmud's life so became him as the leaving...