Word: joined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some strong men in the field events. Stu White is a very good high jumper, and Don Catino is a possible winner in the javelin. But the varsity group that assistant coach Ed Stowell calls "the best collection of field event men I've seen at Harvard" should join the runners in a convincing victory...
Edmund Wilson, one-time newspaper-man who turned his avocation of independent scholarship into a profession, will join the English Department next year for a one-year appointment...
...such matters. He passed his time in study and in a new absorption in Western gadgets. He took many photographs, often wandered on the terraces of the Potala armed with a telescope with which he could examine the busy life of his city without ever being permitted to join in it. Each spring he traveled in solemn procession through ranks of bowing, weeping people to the summer palace; each autumn he solemnly returned to the Potala. The Austrian Harrer tutored him in Western science and technology, found in the Dalai Lama an insatiable urge for learning, a fascination with modern...
...four years the guerrilla war raged along the border. More and more dispossessed Khambas crossed over into Tibet proper and roused their fellow tribesmen in the Tsangpo valley to join the revolt. In Lhasa, monks grumbled at the religion-destroying teachings of the Red Chinese; Tibetans complained at soaring prices and the confiscation of grain and wool. The Reds applied pressure on the Dalai Lama to quiet his people. To an anxious crowd assembled in the Norbulingka gardens, the God-King said blandly: "If the Chinese Communists have come to Tibet to help us, it is most important that they...
...Blue Forest are really a remarkable group of puppets created by ex-Actor George Nellé, 34. and Writer-Director Don Kane, 30. As Hostess Brigid and her small guests sit by and offer advice, creatures named Tugnacious R. Jones and Myrtle Flower ("She's an Eloise type") join an old, nasal-voiced wizard in such projects as constructing a popcorn machine that will not stop popping, and making a sewing machine that turns out marbles...