Word: camped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graveled courtyard while the 14-year-old Dalai Lama preached to them on the Tantric texts in a clear, boyish voice, but with the composure and assurance of an adult. A Tibetan-speaking Westerner was there, an Austrian named Heinrich Harrer, who had escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp in India and painfully made his way to asylum in Lhasa. The debate that followed between the abbot and the Dalai Lama was a genuine contest of wits, says Harrer, in which the God-King was "never for a moment disconcerted," while the venerable abbot "was hard put to hold...
...Armstrong's proposed change would substitute a six-day summer session on weapons and map reading for the present half course in the Fall of Freshman year. This intense course would be given at the College immediately before ROTC juniors would leave for their normad Summer Camp training...
...headquarters and home-away-from-home of Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, the armed camp that is Baghdad's Defense Ministry was a faithful reflection of Iraq's mood and condition. Nine months after Kassem and a handful of co-conspirators toppled the government of hated Strongman Nuri asSaid, the land that some say was the Garden of Eden is a place of terror, plot and counterplot. Its prisons are jammed with an estimated 5,000 political prisoners and ex-officials, and its lampposts are periodically festooned with bodies. Kassem's Iraq is a place where once-eminent...
...Military Camp No. 1, the big modern army base outside Mexico City, steel gates clanged shut on more than 1,000 railroad workers one night last week. Troops guarded stations, and the government-owned railways sent out a call for strikebreakers to man the trains. After two tries at dealing with Demetrio Vallejo, 45, the brash, baby-faced new leader of the Railway Workers Union, President Adolfo López Mateos set out to crush...
...freshman season that he is already considered one of the major's best glove men. Switched to shortstop, Andre Rodgers, 24, a onetime Bahamas cricket player, seems finally to have solved big-league pitching, was leading the team in batting average (.414), as the Giants broke camp at week...