Word: dragons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Polo & Palestine. The dragon-tooth soil of Northern Ireland has farrowed a fine litter of Britain's great generals-Montgomery, Alexander, Dill, Alanbrooke, Auchinleck. It also farrowed Gerald Templer, a thin, deceptively fragile-looking, tough soldier. His father, a dedicated officer in the Royal Irish Fusiliers, had some discussion with his mother about what to call the child, but there was no discussion about his career: it was Wellington, Sandhurst, and the army. Says his mother, now in her 80s : "He always wanted to be a soldier, and I did my best to make...
...good deal of Dickens can be read as a writer's reaction against his own child-labor and childhood shock. Yet Dickens was not only a fighter with words. He fought hand to hand with the dragon of poverty in the slums of London, and his sword was the mighty bankroll of "the richest heiress in all England," a Miss Angela Burdett-Coutts. The Heart of Charles Dickens is the story of their high-purposed and sometimes amusing friendship, told in a selection from more than 500 letters, most of them published for the first time, which Dickens wrote...
Inside the great paper dragon which twists & turns through Chinese streets in festive parades are Chinese men. Last week the great paper dragon of Chinese industry was shuffled in its vertebrae, and up to the head and most honored position moved Kao Kang...
...regional government and military administrations (including Kao's own at Mukden, Lin Piao's at Hankow) in favor of centralization. China was set to get its long overdue industrialization the hard way, but so far there is nothing to show that Kao Kang's shuffling dragon is clothed in anything more than paper...
Last week, in a ceremony which by tradition includes an honor guard of silk-uniformed soldiers, each carrying two swords and a shield of buffalo hide, Sir Jigme's 24-year-old son, Jigme Dorji, was installed as the third Gyalpo of Thunder-dragon. Two visitors-the eldest son of the Maharaja of neighboring Sikkim and an Indian political agent-were invited over the mountains to see the show. They were the only outsiders present...