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Too many chiefs and not enough Indians. Prov. Too many people want to be the leader, and not enough people are willing to follow to do the detail work. Everyone on that committee wants to be in charge. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians. We'll never finish this project if everyone keeps trying to give orders. There are too many chiefs and not enough Indians. an Indian summer 1. a period of warm weather which sometimes happens in early autumn Both the UK and Ireland have been enjoying an Indian summer over the past few weeks. 2. a successful or pleasant period in someone's life, especially towards the end of their life The book describes the last 20 years of Churchill's life, including his Indian summer as prime minister between 1951 and 1955. See also: summer How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Chinese food in India has yet to be thoroughly documented, to my knowledge, and future studies need to address this lacuna as the cuisine, and especially Indianized versions of it, are extremely popular in the subcontinent. From here, you are led to Indianized southeast Asia and by degrees to the museum's central exhibition of Guimet's Khmer sculptures. By mining a rich vein of precious ore, representing the work of scores of Indian historians, anthr opologists, linguists, archaeologists, agronomists, and other scholars, he has constructed a primer on the myriad ways in which European colonizers were Indianized and Indians were Europeanized over two centuries of continuous contact in North America. |
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