Word: mitra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Subsequent information from the Mitra, a Dutch freighter cruising south of the Virgin Islands, indicated that a flaming ball had been seen plunging downward "trailing smoke and sparks...
...extra bonus from nature, eleven fingers. But, what with the astrologers and all, even Kamthorn could never be quite confident, so that it was in the Year of the Goat that he first began to listen attentively when the local priest, Abbot Phra Viradhammuni of the Trai Mitra monastery, begged him for the thousandth time to help build a temple...
...Trai Mitra was a poor parish, its only material blessing a nondescript Buddha which stood under an old tin shed, and for years the abbot had been trying in vain to get old Kamthorn to do something about it. The Year of the Goat turned the trick. Kamthorn donated $35,000. A new temple was built, and workmen set about moving the statue into its new home. But the goat was still at work, and in the midst of the heavy task the workmen's cable broke, and the Buddha crashed to the ground, badly cracked. To the priests...
...When the regime's No. 3 Communist, Milovan Djilas, was put on trial for publishing articles which publicly criticized both the loose morals and the political rigidity of the party's top leaders, only two Yugoslavs spoke up in his defense. One was Djilas' exwife, Mitra Mitrovic. The other was Vlado Dedijer, who dared to take issue with Edvard Kardelj, next to Tito the most powerful figure in the government. "To speak quite frankly," said Dedijer to Kardelj, "I am not a robot and cannot automatically accept a view simply because of the authority...
Milovan Djilas, Minister Without Portfolio, is 38, a Montenegrin from Kolasin. His wife, Mitra-Mitrovic, is a Communist intellectual and a minister in the cabinet of the Serbian Republic. Djilas, a graduate from Belgrade University's faculty of law, is co-editor of the Communist daily, Borba. Today one of his functions is to direct "agitprop," the psychological warfare branch of the Yugoslav government. A forceful, brilliant writer and speaker, Djilas, with his shock of black hair and lively eyes, is a more attractive personality than the other two members of the triumvirate...