Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only two weeks into his presidency, Jimmy Carter has already proved himself a master of the symbolic...
...Mengistu that Benti and his aides had been killed because they were secret supporters of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party. The E.P.R.P. is a leftist underground group of students and businessmen trying to replace military rule with civilian government. Mengistu claimed he had discovered a 47-page master plan, belonging to Benti, that blueprinted the installation of the E.P.R.P. as a government to replace the "scientific socialism" of the military council...
Some slave women were raped and others treated with kindness. A slave named Frank Bell in New Orleans was often kept in chains; his master discovered that Bell had married and, in a drunken rage, cut off the girl's head...
Last week TIME Correspondent Leo Janos observed the master at work. His report...
...years later, Chogyam-incarnate lama and "precious master" -sits behind a polished rosewood desk in a small but luxurious office in Boulder, Colo. Behind him hangs a large tapestry of a snow lion by the Japanese artist Tatsumura. His own paintings and calligraphy decorate the other walls. Six disciples, among them a scientist, a classicist and a physiotherapist, cluster around him, each dressed, like the master, in a dark suit. All are part of Chogyam's new kingdom: Naropa Institute, named for a great 8th century Buddhist scholar, the largest Buddhist study center...