Word: rangoon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kyaw Nyein, leader of the Socialists who are Burma's biggest political party, said: "We are so disrupted that 300 armed men can take any place except Rangoon itself. In the last two years there is scarcely a town in Burma which has not been seized at least once by rebels of some sort...
...work at the University of Paris, France. Irving G. Fine '37, Assistant Professor of Music, and a member of the Berkshire Music Center, will also go to the University of Paris. John R. King, a post-doctoral student in education, will study at the State Training College for Teachers, Rangoon...
...Rangoon many years ago, according to a Burmese anecdote, a newly arrived and impeccably dressed visitor from Britain presented himself at the house of a Burmese dignitary. He was met by a bevy of lovely Burmese girls carrying bowls of water, who said a few words in their native tongue. Anxious to be agreeable, the Briton nodded, whereupon the maidens deluged him, from topper to spats, with cold water. The master of the house laughed & laughed...
Karen control of the Irrawaddy had cut off rice shipments from Rangoon.
The bankrupt government hoped anxiously for a ?25 million British loan
($100 million). In London, talk revived that Burma, after 15 months of
chaotic independence, would apply for readmission to the British
Commonwealth. In Rangoon, Premier Thakin Nu had moved into a thatched
hut behind his house, and taken a vow of chastity (he has eight
children). Thakin Nu's friends said that he was devoting himself to
becoming a Buddha 999 worlds from now. Recently, Thakin Nu and
thousands of other residents
...learned to read the Scriptures, was baptized, and set out to convert his fellow tribesmen. Karens, who had a myth that one day their "lost white brother" would return over the great waters with a "lost book," made willing listeners. When bands of Karens began to arrive in Rangoon to be baptized, the Burmans threw them into prison. One convert, Ko Shwe Waing, was released and smuggled a Bible in the Karen language through the back jungle trails to his native village. There, while Karens guarded the house, he reverently unwrapped the mythical lost book in the flickering light...