Word: interrupted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beaten with sticks until, weak and bleeding at the feet of the sadhu, they consented to cry, "All Hail to the Hindu God Ramachandra." Released at last, they staggered away and called the police. Next day, five policemen on bicycles and an officer on horseback rode into Mokhimpur to interrupt a scene of nightmare revelry. The men dressed only in loin cloths, the women with their saris tucked up high above their knees, the Baghbhans were doing a wild dance around their sadhu, who himself was playing a screeching air on the flute. As the police approached, the dancing stopped...
...enforce the prevailing decadence, Shakespeare provides a simple and trusting Troilus (who is soon betrayed), a manly and serious Hector (who is ultimately butchered). And he offers in Ulysses a median figure, a brilliant yet unavailing man of the world. Such characters help deepen the play's mood, interrupt slithering words with resonant poetry, reveal not just the lashes of scorn but the salt tears of feeling. In its unevenness, Troilus does touch depths; in its waywardness, it does sometimes strike home...
...stepped out of her car, and traffic was jammed to a dead stop until a platoon of bobbies appeared to disperse the crowds. Earlier, Marilyn's Pulitzer-Prizewinning husband, Playwright Arthur Miller (whom Marilyn now calls "popsie-wopsie," while he calls her "poopsie-woopsie"), said that he would interrupt his honeymoon with Marilyn and fly home early this week "to see my children." Miller added, understandably, that he would be back...
...interrupt this record," says a breathless voice after only a few bars of music, "to bring you a special bulletin. The reports of a flying saucer hovering over the city have been confirmed." So begins a record called The Flying Saucer, released five weeks ago on the "Luniverse" label and now one of the big off-beat hits in the jukebox trade...
...Parliament Nehru resembles nothing so much as a crotchety schoolmaster leading a class discussion. He constantly pops up to interrupt, discourses firmly on everything from the evils of too many cocktail parties to what kind of clothing M.P.s should wear. Often these casual expressions of personal opinion determine national policies. One such statement resulted in the banning in India of films that show Africans in a "degrading light,"' e.g., as bearers on safari. Another killed a widely supported proposal to put a $5,000 ceiling on personal income in India...