Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anna grabbed her Chinese padded gown, a box of vitamin pills, three handkerchiefs, and followed her captors. "My mind raced madly . . . What, what, what had I done? Why, everybody liked me here! At the last diplomatic reception, Mme. Molotov had shown me a special favor . . . We turned . . . into the inner court of Lyubyanka prison . . . 'How,' I gasped, 'shall I ever get out of here...
Molotov was chosen as a Politburo "nominee" (alternate) in 1923. Then he was only 33. (This week he turned 59.) In 1930 he became Premier. Through the '20s and '30s, Molotov had a big hand in the forming of inner Soviet policy in all fields: foreign, domestic, Comintern. In May 1939, Molotov succeeded Maxim Litvinoff as Foreign Minister. Four months later he shocked the world with the Nazi-Soviet pact. Said Molotov: "One may accept or reject the ideology of Hitlerism . . . that is a matter of political views...
...Tibetan (the Latin of Buddhism), the scriptures, and the procedures of his new office. As the 19th successive reincarnation of 6th Century Buddhist Saint Dilowa, they gave him that name. When he was 18, the Dilowa Hutukhtu assumed command of the Naribanchin lamasery and two others in Chinese Inner Mongolia...
Then, in 1931, the routine was suddenly shattered. The "autonomous" government of Outer Mongolia, which was coming more & more under Soviet influence, outlawed Buddhism as the national religion, confiscated the lamasery lands. The Dilowa Hutukhtu withdrew first to Inner Mongolia, then to North China, finally (during the Japanese war) to Chungking. Cut off from his monasteries and obliged to live on a stipend from the Chinese government, he dreamed of retiring to Tibet. But last week, the long-wandering Dilowa Hutukhtu had changed his place of exile once again. He became a resident of Baltimore, U.S.A...
...sized planetarium occupies the center of the room. Built for the College during the Revolution, it can show the five inner planets rotating and revolving around the sun, and the various moons revolving around the planets...