Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...image of Buddha. Opposite, in a wicker chair flanked by two bold parrots, sat one of the most talked about and least known generals in the null century Orient. His long, hard body was encased in the folds of a grey Chinese gown and he jogged on one knee his five-year...
...farms around Benares, India's holy city, are nourished by the sacred Ganges. The soil is black and crumbly, as rich-looking as chocolate. Cane grows as high as a man's head. Water is knee-deep in the lush paddies. It is a happy land, where plump little children stand beside the road, laugh and wave to passing automobiles, where slender farm girls, with water jars balanced gracefully on their heads, smile shyly before covering their faces with colorful head cloths. Old men sit in the doorways of mud huts, contentedly puffing on long-stemmed hookahs...
Diamond Thought. On a white horse, wearing a green dress and her bronze knee-length hair done up in thick braids, Maud Gonne rode into Donegal, where the British battering rams had made a thousand people homeless. She organized resistance meetings, put hope into the peasants, fear into landlords' agents. Once, riding through a mountain glen, she came upon police guarding four young prisoners. Said she, in a voice of authority: "Let them go now; I take full responsibility," and waved the prisoners away. The peasants called her a Woman of the Sidhe, one with magic powers. Her fame...
...save for a few absurdities, Spring and Summer fashions would escape the malediction hurled by the fellow who himself wore flowing green silk neckties, a green velvet jacket and knee-breeches, and who strolled around London with "a flower or a lily clutched in his medieval hand...
...armed with another souvenir (a Malayan parang, a vicious native knife which a British sergeant had given him), the traveler from Illinois logged a misadventure. Flying over the jungle near Kuala Lumpur, his helicopter caught fire and made a forced landing in a paddyfield. Stepping out unharmed into knee-deep mud, Stevenson cracked: "Where is my parang? I want to kill a bandit." At week's end, Stevenson was ready to take off for Bangkok, with stops at Rangoon, New Delhi and Karachi before heading on to the Middle East...