Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dispute between the nation's press and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles over his refusal to let American newsmen go to Red China flared up anew. Going beyond his original argument-an unconvincing one-that the U.S. would not be able to protect reporters behind the Bamboo Curtain, Dulles last week entered a new explanation that first confused and then angered editors across the nation...
...never get far from the Iron Cur tain, it seems," said Bell. "I covered it in Korea, from Greece, Turkey and Iran, and from Eastern Europe from 1954 until last Christmas Eve. Now I'm back to the bamboo variety...
...most part, Operation Brotherhood concentrated on the estimated million refugees, many of whom arrived with mutilated limbs and filthy, blood-caked wounds. Some reached the aid stations by sampan, some by oxcart; others were carried on relatives' shoulders or in a hammock slung from a bamboo pole. Accustomed to no more sophisticated medical treatments than massage, bamboo cupping or tiger balm, they were reluctant to wash the dirt off a wound. Some had shaved their heads, refused to bathe, or relied on other traditional "remedies." But all wanted the reputedly powerful medicines from the West. Said a Thai nurse...
...bespectacled Dalai Lama, 21, nominal ruler of Red-ruled Tibet, was permitted to venture outside the Bamboo Curtain for the first time since the Chinese Communists forced Marxian enlightenment upon his Himalayan country five years ago. In journeying from his capital of Lhasa to New Delhi, where he was warmly greeted by India's Prime Minister Nehru, the "living Buddha" traveled on foot, pony, jeep and, on the final lap, by plane. A half hour later, Tibet's No. 2 puppet, the Panchen Lama, a benighted Red stooge, arrived on a second plane...
...merrymaking with geisha girls," in the disguise of "Mr. P., a company owner." Shida had bought himself expensive clothes, donned black-rimmed glasses, grown a big mustache. Sometimes for three nights running he would drink four to six quarts of sake at a Tokyo geisha house called the Big Bamboo. He lavished so much money on his favorite geisha and attendant guests that the owner was able to add a brand-new two-story annex. Wrote Shinso's reporter: "I looked around at the rich artistic material used in building the annex, and when I reflected...