Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mahayana Buddhist School. His mother was the only female he was allowed to receive within his household of servants, monks, abbots and the State Oracle, given to appropriately vague pronouncements ("A powerful foe threatens . . ."). The few Western visitors who, bearing sacred scarves, got audiences, found him a studious, insatiably curious and dedicated boy. He had a passion for cameras and for everything electrical, but he once observed to a visitor: "It is funny that the former body [i.e., the 13th Dalai Lama] was so fond of horses and that they mean so little...
...find French commanders who would defy Vichy and support the forth coming invasion.* Like Clark (who lost his pants while scurrying back to the waiting submarine), Lemnitzer had some close calls: he had to hide in a wine cellar when nosy Vichy French gendarmes came to investigate curious circumstances at the clandestine meeting place; later, en route to Torch headquarters in Gibraltar, his B-17 was attacked by three Nazi JU-88s, which wounded the copilot...
...club president after another complains that "student apathy--incredible indifference--is our biggest problem," but none mentioned that this apathy itself is a curious compound. One part is Harvard's way of frowning on enthusiasm; another is the helpless feeling one gets when confronting today's complex issues; and a third is the convenient rationalization that there are no great issues left...
...subject of many headlines last Fall, the Committee to Study Disarmament sprang up just a year ago. Though most members were sincerely concerned with the disarmament problem, a few joined with rather curious motives. When interest lagged, these clever fellows stepped into the "power vacum," played some unconstitutional tricks, brought in a flock of cronies, and elected one of their number as president. The name was promptly changed to the Committee Against Appeasement. During a student Council inquiry, however, the trickster resigned, and the group was left free to puruse its original purpose...
...emphasis pact of 1954, has since played the game so honorably that its teams have won 24 games, lost 20. But to his astonishment, Thompson soon learned that football is no laughing matter-even at Brown. His phone rang night and day with anonymous threatening calls from sullen students. Curious to see how Brown would react to more balloon pricking, Thompson stuck tongue farther in cheek, called for the abolition of the Navy and the FBI. His phone jangled louder than ever...