Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Empress Tzu Hsi. escaped by cutting her long, lacquered nails and fleeing Peking disguised as a peasant. But soon the allies wanted her back to administer the last years of the wretched empire. In 1901, she returned to Peking, bowed to applauding foreigners, and went back to the Forbidden City. She ruled China for seven more years until her death in 1908, an evil copy of Britain's Queen Victoria, whom she much admired...
...remote and mysterious plain, the crenelated walls with their eleven great gates and 181 watchtowers gleamed in the night. "Seen thus," wrote British Traveler Fitzroy Maclean in Escape to Adventure-an account of his journeys in 1938 to forbidden parts of the U.S.S.R. -"Bukhara seemed an enchanted city, with its pinnacles and domes and crumbling ramparts white and dazzling in the pale light of the moon...
...nomads forced into collectives. In ten years, uncounted millions died from starvation or were killed. Then the Soviets turned to extirpating Moslem religion and culture. Hundreds of mosques were closed, mullahs by the score were arrested, their schools and libraries seized, and the use of Arabic script was forbidden. The ban still exists: although they outnumber Moslems in Egypt, Central Asia's Mohammedans are today the only ones in the world who are not allowed to use Arabic...
...Promise of Spring. Another in the top flight is tall, slender Hideo Hagiwara, 46, who worked as an army coolie during the war, began making wood blocks in 1953 when, hospitalized with TB, he was forbidden to paint in oils because they were too messy. Noted for soft tones, gentle composition, he describes his Snow: "It is melting snow with the promise of spring, and growing hope...
...knows "the kings of England and all kinds of scam like that." She charges. Dobie for help with his homework, gets 7? a sentence for a parse job, 10? apiece for the provinces of Canada, 80? to tell who fought in the Hundred Years' War. Her earnings buy forbidden lingerie. "Some day I will be allowed to wear black lace underwear," Red Knees explains, "and when that day comes, buster, I mean to be ready...