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Word: whispers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indian Whisper. Giri replies that India has only itself to blame for the Red threat, that Nepal would not need Chinese aid if Nehru took action against the Nepali rebels who use Indian territory as a refuge and a training area. Referring to Rebel Chief Subarna, who is half deaf, Giri adds: "If India just whispered in Subarna's good ear, 99% of the raids would stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal: War in the Mountains | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

...India has failed to whisper. Katmandu reported that "antinational elements who have their base in India" struck in the biggest attack yet, a four-hour assault on the Nepali border town of Koilabas, and were actually led and directed by an Indian intelligence officer named Sitaram Singh. Even when driven off. Katmandu insisted, the "bandits continued to fire from Indian territory." A government-controlled newspaper in Katmandu charged that India was trying "to do a Cuba" in Nepal. Noting that India had failed to deliver a promised arms shipment. Nepal's Foreign Minister Giri said: "We are not happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nepal: War in the Mountains | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

Miss Williams, a short but large woman of great dignity, has the most extraordinary voice of any gospel singer. At one moment, her tone is full and clear; at the next it shifts to a growl, her full vibrato becoming a whisper. The other night she improvised melodic lines within strikingly complex rhythms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marion Williams | 2/20/1962 | See Source »

...Robert Morse, 30, tousle-haired comic star of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Broadway's lighthearted spoof of the corporate image, and his actress-danseuse wife, Carole D'Andrea, 22: their first child, a daughter (whose birth was announced to Morse in a stage whisper from the wings during an evening performance); in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 5, 1962 | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...Facts. What seemed particularly annoying about the U.N.'s position on Goa was that Afro-Asian nations which, like India itself, have always preached patience and compromise to the U.S., did not even raise a whisper of protest over India's Charter violation. As Paris' Le Monde put it: "One could hope that a few voices would be heard in the neutralist camp to deplore, in however friendly a fashion, the Indian decision. It seems that anticolonialism excuses everything." Obviously unable to line up any support from Afro-Asian nations to censure India, the U.S. dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: U.N.: Between Illusion & Disillusion | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

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