Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the terms of the 1954 Geneva agreement. France was allowed to main tain 5,000 troops in Laos, was entrusted with the training of the Royal Laotian Army. fact, the French promptly cut their Laotian garrison to fewer than a thousand men, showed so little interest in their training mission that many of the Laotian army's 25,000 men are still incompetent to handle anything heav ier than a submachine...
...lifetime occasion when politicians disagree, and he must choose a Prime Minister to form a government. Vanier was picked by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, formally appointed by Queen Elizabeth II, and in all important respects serves as the Queen's standin, exercising her powers and prerogatives. His main function is to exemplify the unifying symbol of the Crown in his travels across the land. His predecessor set an arduous example. Retiring Vincent Massey, 72, in his 7½ years as Canada's first native-born Governor General, entertained 75,000 Canadians at Government House in Ottawa, traveled...
...Moore's main studio, about 100 yards from his home in the small hamlet of Perry Green, there stands a recently completed bronze figure of a woman, her belly distended with an unborn child that could almost be moving, her neck and her back strained so that the bones and ligaments stand out. "As I was making that figure," says Henry Moore, "I was rubbing my mother's shoulder again. She was constantly in my mind. Those moments all become a part of the sculpture...
...igth century. There is a duel, a mutiny, piracy, the slave trade, an escape from prison, changed identities, a kidnaoing, even buried treasure. The hi?h adventure is made believable by the style-dry, direct, understated. But the excitement is only incidental to the story's main theme, which is Shanti's lifelong pursuit of truth and his stoic acceptance of whatever roadblocks fate may put in his path...
...first rescuers penetrated into Peking. The Boxers melted away, and next day the main force followed. The siege cost the lives of 66 foreigners and six babies. The rest were saved largely by the incompetence of the Chinese besiegers and the bravery of 2,000 Chinese Christian converts, who dug ditches and erected barricades...