Word: drove
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dalai Lama and his escort fled by night and hid by day in lamaseries, villages and Khamba encampments, the furious Red Chinese boasted that they had put down the three-day revolt in Lhasa that had served to cover the God-King's escape. Point-blank artillery fire drove diehard lamas from the Norbulingka, summer palace on the city's outskirts. Red infantrymen surged into the vast warrens of the Potala winter palace, rounded up defiant monks in narrow passages and dark rooms where flickering butter lamps made Tibet's grotesque gods and demons seem to caper...
...power te the commissars. The Khambas, great shaggy men often 6 ft. tall, with leather boots, 3-ft. swords and rifles they are born and die with, fought back. Snipers bushwhacked lone Red couriers on the new road to Lhasa. Khamba bands ambushed military convoys. The embittered monks drove off the Chinese farmers sent to take over their land. To teach them a lesson. the Chinese Reds sent bombing planes and leveled the intransigent lamaseries...
...Votes Apiece. The Bay Street boys run the politics as well as the boom. But even in the sparsely populated (116,530) Bahamas, the dreams that drove colonials to greater measures of self-government elsewhere in the old British Empire are stirring. Last year, at the beginning of the winter season, Nassau's taxi drivers, bus boys, power-plant workers and construction workers walked out on strike (TIME, Jan. 27, 1958). Members of the Progressive Liberal Party, they struck mostly for fairer polling laws, and they won a few concessions; e.g., men of property, who formerly could vote...
Women drivers copped first place in two of the six classifications. Stunt Driver Patricia Jones drove her Dodge Coronet to victory in the Low Medium-Price Class; Hollywood Secretary Mary Hauser zipped her Chevrolet Biscayne into top honors in the Low-Price, 6-Cylinder Class. Only a broken tie rod and penalty for lost time while she repaired it kept Restaurant Owner Mary Davis of Hollywood, in a Plymouth Belvedere, from winning first place in a third class. (She placed second.) In 13 individual races, in which men and women raced against each other and drove identical makes and models...
...until there was less than a quarter of a mile left in the race that the J.V. increased its tempo as both boats drove forward neck and neck. The timing and bladework of the Crimson eight remained smooth as it raced across the finish line rowing...