Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ Red China battled with bombs and paratroops to blot out the last vestiges of independence in Tibet, and the Dalai Lama's spectacular escape into India (see FOREIGN NEWS), brought home the point for would-be neutralists in Asia and Africa that they stay neutral in the cold...
Nehru's announcement capped one of the epic escape stories of history. On the night of March 17, under cover of darkness, Tibet's Living Buddha slipped out of the Norbulingka, his summer palace outside Lhasa, and together with his mother, two sisters and a younger brother, headed...
Against the background of Mexico during the anti-clerical campaign of the 1930's, the last priest in a province fights his drunkenness and cowardice, all the time facing the choice between escape to freedom and staying on to minister to the peasants, who have stuck to their primitive Catholicism...
Salemme's colors were almost always beautiful and bright, hence the subtlety of their effect: he pictured nightmares in the sunshine, petal-hued evils, well-scrubbed and enameled enigmas. His art gives vividly the same confusing message that he once put into words. "Life," Salemme wrote, "has infinite doors...
On his way to Bokhara to liberate the British officers, Missionary Wolff stopped off in Teheran to shout down the Shah of Persia, paused at Merv for a three-cornered theological debate with a dervish and a Talmudic scholar. Arriving in Bokhara with its Tower of Death, verminous dungeons and...