Word: calcutta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flew tourist class, praying briefly before the jet touched down at Oslo's Fornebu Airport. Dressed as always in blue-trimmed white sari and sandals, with a threadbare wool overcoat her only concession to subfreezing temperatures, Serbian-born Mother Teresa, 69, the "angel of the slums" of Calcutta, arrived to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. At her request, the Nobel committee eschewed the traditional banquet after the presentation and donated the $7,000 that the dinner for 135 would have cost to her Calcutta-based Missionaries of Charity, who will use the money to feed 400 poor people...
...gutted ruin. Two Americans were killed; 90 others were rescued after seven hours of horror (see following pages). Angry crowds also threw rocks through the windows of a U.S. consulate in Izmir, Turkey; another crowd chanted "Down with American imperialism!" outside the American embassy in Dacca, Bangladesh; demonstrators in Calcutta stoned the U.S. consulate and burned President Carter in effigy...
Last week Mother Teresa of Calcutta, 69, was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize for Peace...
Tiny, gray-eyed, her face deeply seamed with the passing years, Mother Teresa received the news with characteristic lack of fuss in the Missionaries of Charity motherhouse in Calcutta. She has won an array of international honors, and though this one carried the biggest stipend so far-$190,000-she took it in stride. "Personally, I am unworthy," she said in her first response to the award...
...Albanian parents and baptized Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in what is now Skoplje, Yugoslavia. Even at the age of twelve she wanted to "go out and give the love of Christ." By the time she was 18, Agnes had joined the Irish branch of Loreto nuns who were working in Calcutta, where she soon began teaching geography at St. Mary's High School...