Word: fortresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buddhist charm: Om mani padme hum ("Hail to the jewel in the lotus flower"). Three nights before, some 1,000 miles to the southwest of Peiping, the great Dalai Lama, Venerable Ocean Treasure and Jewel of Majesty, had gone to his Nirvana, aged 60, in the Potala, his massive fortress-palace in Lhasa high on the bleak plateau of Tibet. Dead, some said, of poisoning, was the 13th reincarnation of Buddha, absolute ruler of Tibet and of many a Buddhist elsewhere, Ah-Wang-Lo-Pu-Tsang-To-Pu-Tan -Chia-Ta-Chi-Chai- Wang-Chu-Chueh-Le-Lang-Chieh, otherwise...
...Marlborough's partisan. His introduction to his hero is like a flung gauntlet: ''He commanded the armies of Europe against France for ten campaigns. He fought four great battles and many important actions. . . . He never fought a battle that he did not win, nor besieged a fortress that he did not take. . . . He quitted war invincible: and no sooner was his guiding hand withdrawn than disaster overtook the armies he had led. Successive generations have not ceased to name him with...
Last week unstable Hernandez struck again. In Atares Fortress, in the San Ambrosio and Dragones military posts, sections of the Army in sympathy with the ABC opposition rebelled in an effort to restore the brief conservative government of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes. Leading the Atares rebels was bowlegged old Hernandez, quickly joined by the men from the other posts, for Atares Fortress, built in 1767 with walls of masonry over six feet thick, was reputedly proof against modern shell fire...
Meanwhile in Havana the ABC set civilian sharpshooters sniping at soldiers from the rooftops. Atares Fortress was a bloody shambles. In the midst of the siege a wild-eyed messenger burst into the Presidential palace shouting that Rebel Hernandez had been killed. It was true, and so had over 150 others. Atares surrendered...
...Verdun!" Behind Belgium and Luxembourg, whom France trusts, Marshal Foch and General Weygand thought it sufficient to scatter only small forts, backed by what they decided to call '"Flying Fortresses." These, a post-War innovation, consist of trainloads of motorized trench digging and barbed-wire stringing machines of Gargantuan size. In three days each "Flying Fortress" is supposed to turn out a complete system of front line trenches for the sector which it covers and within a week all the "Flying Fortresses" working together can dig France in from the North Sea to the Sarre...