Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fastness of their native land, Tibetans-like the Hungarians before them in 1956-could expect to stir the sympathy of the free world, but they could hardly count on any real help from it. Red repression in Lhasa coulu be even more brutal than in Budapest-for who would know what had been done? The single radio signal that intermittently flashes out to New Delhi from the Indian consulate in Lhasa was very weak, and its report was cautious and correct...
...every trumpeter well knows, to sustain a note of clarity, volume and high pitch through 53 inches of drawn-brass tubing requires the lung power of a bull moose and the finesse of a brindled gnu. What few trumpeters know is that while tootling they approximate the effects of "a formidable Valsalva maneuver," i.e., a hard nose-blow with nostrils and mouth blocked. To find out just how formidable the effects are, London's Dr. E. P. Sharpey-Schafer and California Musician Maurice Faulkner last summer sat down in London. Faulkner huffed his way through several trumpet passages, including...
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Like Novelist Naipaul, a Trinidad-born Hindu, Ganesh glows with a Messianic conviction that "the day go come when you go be proud to tell people that you did know Ganesh." Dazzled by the arcane wonders of the printed word, he embarks on a brief but disastrous career teaching in a district school, goes on to write a book: 101 Questions and Answers on the Hindu Religion. ("Q. What is Hinduism? A. Hinduism is the religion of the Hindus. Q. Why am I a Hindu? A. Because my parents and grandparents were Hindus.") Eventually Ganesh stumbles on his true mission...
...coverage of the Russian conquest of Khiva; Irishman Edmund O'Donovan, representing the London Daily News, who was simultaneously held prisoner and elected prince by the Tekke tribesmen of desolate Merv. Said O'Donovan: "It is well worth while to have lived among the Tekkes to know the ecstatic delight of parting company with them...