Word: mountbatten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...projects required immense capital outlay as well as unlimited confidence in Geoffrey Pyke, which is why most of them remained in the idea stage until he joined Lord Mountbatten's Combined Operations staff during the war. In that atmosphere of frenzied immediacy, amid the flinging about of millions of pounds and dollars, Geoffrey Pyke had his innings...
...Ramdas set fire to the ghi-soaked wood with the charcoal he had carried, smoldering, all the way from Birla House. Nehru, Patel, Governor General Earl Mountbatten and his Lady threw last rose petals on the pyre as the white smoke of sweet-smelling sandalwood rose against the scarlet evening sun. From nearly a million throats came the chant, half in mourning, half in triumph: "Mahatma Gandhi amar ho gae!"-"Mahatma Gandhi has become immortal...
...Philip Mountbatten [Duke of Edinburgh], who rose from almost obscurity during 1947 to become the husband of the future Queen of England...
...Panama. In heedless Manhattan thousands got out of bed at 6 a.m. to hang over radios. Shanghai and Hankow had never seen so many weddings; Chinese brides deemed it lucky to be married on the day that Elizabeth, heiress to Britain's throne, became the wife of Philip Mountbatten...
London's enterprising Daily Mirror had reporters explore the Mountbatten honeymoon house at Broadlands before it was barred to the press. Thus the Mirror, by dint of a little imagination, was able to take its readers across the threshold and right up to lights...