Word: lhasa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sign that it wishes to stay independent, Tibet decided last year, after centuries of mountain isolation, to send an ambassador to London. A prominent Tibetan, one Yuthok Dzasa, was chosen for the post, started his long trip down from the capital of Lhasa. He stopped off at Kalimpong, a small outpost in the hills of northeast India, to clear up the diplomatic preliminaries with Britain. In anticipation of the barbaric fashions of the Court of St. James's, Yuthok cut off his waist-length hair, the mark of a Tibetan layman* of distincton...
Then, still at Kalimpong, Yuthok got word from Lhasa that his trip was off. Britain had never signaled a welcome for the Tibetan emissary: it did not want to antagonize the Chinese Communists, with whom it has been trying to shake hands ever since it offered recognition of the Reds last January. Lhasa, getting nervous about Mao Tse-tung's increasingly noisy promises to send his armies in to "liberate Tibet," thought Yuthok had better turn around and come home...
...friends 1307 strong pulled out of the Mechanics Building late last night after stashing away all the free chow and blue ribbons they could in two days. The occasion was the 37th annual show sponsored by the Eastern Dog Club, which attracted 80 different breeds of dogs ranging from Lhasa Apso (a Tibet terrier) to hot (peculiar American crossbreed first exhibited in 1896 by Harry M. Stevens...