Word: indians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the last war, Albion went to work writing the administrative history of the Navy, "following in Sam Morison's wake, a usual." Albion covered 50,000 miles, interviewed Admirals by their West Indian swimming pools, accumulated a squad of Wave secretaries, and filled 120 typescript volumes. He found the heat of Washington uncondusive to the writing up of all this material, however, and talked the Navy into moving the Waves up to his home city of Portland, Me. The stimulation of the salt air increased his productivity considerably and he shortly expects to bring out the first...
...hundred and fifty couples will revel this Saturday, as Union dances activities get under way with the annual Dartmouth weekend "Indian Dance," Harvey Robinson '51, of the Student Council's Social Affairs Committee, announced last night...
...dawn, uses three offices (in the Constituent Assembly building, at the Foreign Ministry, in his home), will stick to desk work all day, then go through a barrage of social engagements, including dinner, then stay up until the small hours dictating to stenographers and lying in his charpoy (Indian string bed) to scan a day's bundle of news clippings. He drives himself equally hard, and much more spectacularly, when he gets away from offices and desks...
...Lenin" and the "great new [Soviet Russian] world." His sentiments may have changed since then. He has come to deplore Communist methods. As Prime Minister, he has sanctioned stiff police action against India's Reds, jailing hundreds of them for terror and sabotage. He has (somewhat quaintly) denounced Indian Reds as "the greatest enemy to the cause of Communism...
...Basically it is the familiar story of a wagon train moving west from Missouri to Oregon, but with differences that the jaded reader of historical fiction will be quick to appreciate. In all the body-torturing, spirit-testing haul from Independence to the Willamette, there is not one Indian attack, not a single war whoop or flaming arrow, not one hot-blooded, devil-may-care hero to turn in an impossible rescue, not even a big-breasted heartbreaker in low-cut linsey woolsey to take strong nation-makers from their plain wives and set them at each others' throats...