Word: began
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worriedly, Indians began asking themselves: After Nehru, who? It was and is the favorite New Delhi dinner topic. Food Minister S. K. Patil put the matter bluntly: "Nehru is the greatest asset we have because he is just like a banyan tree under whose shade millions take shelter." He added that Nehru is also a liability, "because in the shade of that banyan tree, biologically, nothing grows...
...trim physically through a half-hour of yoga exercises each morning, including a spell of standing on his head. Whenever he feels drained intellectually, one unfailing source of energy remains to him-the Indian people. Nehru's long romance with the millions on millions of kisans, or peasants, began when he was 31. Brahman-born and British-bred, Nehru had returned home to provincial Allahabad with his sense of innate superiority re-enforced by seven years of upper-class education at Harrow, Cambridge and London's Inner Temple, where he qualified for the bar. Already a romantic dabbler...
...ingenuous, admiring schoolgirl watching Nazi troop movements; at night, from the Lipskis' Pigalle apartment, "Cipine" radioed her findings to London. Handy with pen and brush, Lydia, by 1941, was F-1's chief cartographer. When the infamous female double agent "La Chatte" betrayed the Fi, Lydia began a grim tour of Nazi prisons, ending in Ravensbrueck concentration camp, where, nearly dead from torture and disease, ravished by her guards, she was at last freed in 1944 by the Swedish Red Cross...
...empty cell as an office, the prisoners wrote to stores and charities in town explaining that they wanted to invite as many of Salisbury's European orphans and needy children as possible: ''We would like to be their parents for one day." Soon, the gifts began to arrive, and the prisoners, snatching every free moment from compulsory chores and sometimes staying up until 3 a.m., went to work...
...last week, a teleprinter in the Los Angeles Mirror-News chattered excitedly with a strange bit of copy. "The following," began a story punched out 6 miles west, "is released by Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, 4614 Sunset Boulevard. Attention city desks. Advance release. 'Mistletoe is for kissing, not for eating.' " Thereafter followed 200 words, drafted by Childrens Hospital, to the effect that mistletoe is poisonous when taken internally. What was remarkable about the story was not the toxicity of mistletoe but the transmission. One of the publicity man's newer gimmicks in his tireless assault...