Word: yoga
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dhanalakshmi Aiyanna, 18, daughter of an assistant manager of a Coorg coffee estate. Followers of Hindu mysticism organized pilgrimages to her home. Judge Panchapakesa Ayyar of the Madras high court announced after a talk with the girl that he was sure she had pierced an ancient yoga myster-"Vayu Bhakshina [aiir-food], an art known only to our sages and described in our sacred books...
...Winds. Last week Jawaharlal Nehru observed his 64th birthday, rising as usual at 5 a.m. for an hour's yoga exercises, including standing on his head. Then he went to the National Stadium, where 50,000 schoolchildren shouted birthday greetings to Chacha (Uncle) Nehru. He gave no indication that he felt the chill winds from the north. Yet if he did not recognize them, or chose not to speak of them, there were some Indians...
...maid at Eliot House entered the room cautiously. She had begun straightening an immense pile of letters and scraps when she spotted a middle-aged man, upcuded and apparently practicing yoga...
...loyalty to the Anglican Church makes Nock vehemently deny the yoga legend. "I have never practiced yoga nor played the flute as that person in Esquire wrote," Nock corrects. And indeed it is difficult to imagine flute music from Nock. His voice, a low rumble punctuated with periodic jovial blasts, would suit a rough rider...
...scanty eyelashes, Miss Ruth explained something of how she does it: "I've been flirting with Gayelord Hauser, eating yoghurt and all those things. At the merry age of 73, one has to watch for a gathering around the hips. I never drink or smoke." She also practices yoga every morning...