Word: austrian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mission in Lhasa for eight years before and after World War II. They compiled lists of Rampa inaccuracies, e.g., mention of gold candlesticks, unknown in Tibet; description of Rampa's mother wearing a single earring, a privilege restricted to male officials of a certain rank. Joining forces with Austrian Author Heinrich Harrer (Seven Years in Tibet), Pallis and Richardson decided to go to work on three-eyed Rampa with a private eye of their...
...father was a drama in himself. Son of a French marquis and a Santo Domingo Negro woman, he rose from trooper to general in Napoleon's army in a few years. General Dumas was famed for holding the narrow Bridge of Brixen singlehanded against a whole Austrian squadron. He quarreled fiercely with Bonaparte, who put him on "the unemployed list" as soon as he had no further need of him. Broken in spirit, Grandfather Dumas died in 1806, leaving on record the parting words: "Oh! Must a general who, when he was no more than thirty-five, had already...
Playhouse 90: As The Gentleman from Seventh Avenue, fat, Austrian-born Actor Walter Slezak, 55, had reached "that dangerous age." A warm, voluble Jewish immigrant, he had made a success of his garment business, but his private life was caught in a rusty presser. To get French toast for breakfast, he had to "make out a requisition" the night before; his teenage daughter dispatched him to a movie because "we've got to turn out the lights now and neck." And in the sanctity of his own rooms was a frumpish wife (Sylvia Sidney) who read psychology books, plastered...
...political general who held the post when Marshal Zhukov was dismissed as army chief last summer on charges of interfering with the ideological training of officers. (Zheltov is remembered as the Soviet deputy high commissioner in occupied Austria who remarked of his soldiers' peccadilloes: "So what if an Austrian woman is raped-she may even have enjoyed it. And lootings? It's capitalist property anyhow that they are stealing.") By this little switch, Khrushchev rid himself of the man who helped him get rid of Zhukov, just as he had rid himself of Zhukov three months after...
...According to the scientific principle named for Austrian Physicist Christian Johann Doppler (1803-53), the speed of an object moving toward or away from the observer can be accurately measured by changes in the length of the radio waves it transmits...