Word: dalai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tibet by a half-wild pony, he could reminisce about his native diet of yak butter and yak meat cooked over fires of yak dung; his recorded broadcast from the forbidden Tibetan capital (carried to India by yak), and his gifts to Tibet's 15-year-old Dalai Lama (a gold & silver Siamese tiger skull, an alarm clock, a raincoat...
...century Geographic was a stodgy scientific journal, written with old-fashioned portentousness, and floundering in debt. Grosvenor stuck to the pattern for six years. One day in 1905, a packet of photographs from Tibet landed on his desk. Grosvenor was fascinated by the rugged Tibetan scenery and the Dalai Lama's palace. On an impulse, he spread the pictures across eleven pages. The issue created a sensation: almost by accident, Grosvenor had discovered how to make geography popular...
These were the favorites; but the next Dictator of Russia might be as unknown at present as the next Dalai Lama of Lhasa...
...stolen pig shortly after the Civil War, reached a climax battle 20 years ago (47 killed, 100 wounded). *At the bottom of the scroll, the President hedged: "Valid if said Watson is a full-blooded Seminole Indian. I think he is." *Not to be confused with the Dalai Lama, temporal ruler of Tibet. The Panchen Lama is Tibet's spiritual ruler...
...years after the former Dalai Lama died, Tanchu was chosen to be the ruler of 3,000,000 Tibetans, and brought to Lhasa from his native village (TIME, Feb. 26, 1940). Fifteen doting relatives-parents, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts-accompanied him and still attend him. Ten teachers, all venerated lamas, instruct him in his public role...