Word: commander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before leaving Lhasa, the Dalai Lama was hastily invested with full power as the ruler of Tibet and the regency abolished. In command of his country for the first time, just as it seemed on the point of dissolution, the Dalai Lama withdrew to the Indian border but did not cross over. Since it was clear that no power on earth was interested in aiding Tibet, the God-King opened negotiations at a distance with Red China. In May 1951, a 17-point agreement was signed between the two nations: Red China agreed that Tibet could retain autonomy and promised...
...himself simply Mr. Randolph, an outraged British subject wrote the King at the end of the 17th century to complain that the Bahamas were one of the "chief places where Pyrates Resort & are Harbourd." He requested "that his Majesty be pleased to send a first Rate ffrigot under the Command of a sober person" to end the menace. By 1718 Edward ("Blackbeard") Teach had been shot, and Woodes Rogers, the first Royal Governor, had arrived to establish the crown colony's motto-"Expulsis Piratis...
...speeds up to 80 m.p.h., Britain's Princess Margaret and France's Cinemorsel Brigitte (Girl in the Bikini) Bardot, halted briefly at a traffic light, stared curiously at each other through the cars' side windows. When they raced onward, the royal limousine took a commanding lead. Purred Sex Kitten Bardot, who first met the princess at a command film performance two years ago: "I don't know if she knew me, but she looked at me very hard...
...curate behind the ribbons at St. John the Baptist's is the Rev. Narbrough Hughes D'Aeth, 58, and three years ago he was an R.A.F. air vice-marshal, with a C.B. (Companion of the Bath) and C.B.E. (Commander Order of the British Empire) after his name. A professional fighting man with a record of service around the world and the long habit of command, he now works at the beck and call of St. John's aging and nearly blind vicar, the Rev. Andrew Nugee, must tumble out of bed to take early service when...
...incident catches much of the quality of this fine book, a counterpoise of violence and reflection. Ogburn was one of 3,000 officers and men who volunteered for "dangerous and hazardous" duty overseas. Under command of Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill, they were formed into the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a name more appropriate to a laundry battalion than to a detachment trained to fight far behind the Japanese lines in Burma. TIME-LIFE Correspondent James Shepley salved the unit's pride by christening it "Merrill's Marauders...