Word: landed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cuba, humble peasants marveled at the bountiful leader, Fidel Castro, who is going to give them land, and the workers in the cities cheered the arbitrary rent cut that Castro decreed. But as Castro got ready to go to the U.S. this week, the middle and upper classes, who financed his revolt to restore an elected democracy, uneasily realized that Castro plans a long overhauling of Cuban society before anyone goes to the polls. See THE HEMISPHERE, The First 100 Days...
Polygyny & Prayer. The Tibet he would one day rule is a preserved relic of ancient oriental feudalism. Twice as large as Texas, lying in the very heart of Asia, it is a land of mountains and craterlike valleys that seem to have been ripped from the moon. Its people are handsome, cheerful and indescribably dirty. About four-fifths of them work to support one-fifth, who are shut up in lamaseries. What little land is not owned by the monks belongs either to the Dalai Lama or to about 150 noble families, who have kept their names and acres intact...
...months of summer, they swarm from their dirty, smoke-filled houses, set up white tents with blue trimmings on the river meadows, sing, drink milk beer and tell stories. They splash together in the streams for their first baths of the year. Nearly every visitor to penetrate the forbidden land has been enchanted by its people. They do few things terribly well, but everything with zest. Explorer Fosco Maraini believes they have found the secret of liberty, which is "to live like a flower or a stone; sheltering from the rain in bad weather, enjoying...
...words were proved true in the border province of Kham, where the Reds had been longer in control. The lamaseries of Kham were looted of their treasure and their land collectivized. Nomad Khamba tribesmen were driven from the pastureland they had used for centuries. Tribal chiefs resented their loss of power te the commissars. The Khambas, great shaggy men often 6 ft. tall, with leather boots, 3-ft. swords and rifles they are born and die with, fought back. Snipers bushwhacked lone Red couriers on the new road to Lhasa. Khamba bands ambushed military convoys. The embittered monks drove...
...evening wore on most of the audience seemed to be singing itself into belief. They romped through This Land Is Your Land, The Banks Are Made of Marble, Dark As A Dungeon, and Die Gedanken Sind Frei...