Word: momental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shouts of the watchmen as they marched through the long, twisting corridors. Without playmates or attending parents, the Dalai Lama matured early, and at 14 he visited Lhasa's great monasteries of Drepung and Sera to engage in religious disputation with their learned abbots. This was a critical moment, for upon his intelligence and agility of mind would depend the future balance of power. He would not be deposed should he fail the examination, but he could be turned into a puppet-a Living Buddha who was easily manipulated by shrewd and able monks...
...Harrer, who had escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp in India and painfully made his way to asylum in Lhasa. The debate that followed between the abbot and the Dalai Lama was a genuine contest of wits, says Harrer, in which the God-King was "never for a moment disconcerted," while the venerable abbot "was hard put to hold...
...night before, she was still plain Miss Shoda, but from the moment her mother called her at 5 the next morning, she was already "Your Highness." "Take care of yourself," said a relative who had come to see her off, "when you go over there." A little after 6 a.m.. her eyes blinking back the tears, Michiko Shoda, 24, bowed stiffly to her parents, entered the antique maroon Mercedes-Benz sent by the palace, and was off to begin her life "over there" as the first commoner in 2,600 years to wed a future Emperor of Japan...
...their hands, they bowed four times. The prince then pulled out of his long sleeve a scroll, informing his ancestors that "from now on we shall love each other forever." After withdrawing on their knees to the outer sanctum, the couple took tiny sips of sake. At the moment the cup left Michi's lips, she was Akihito's wife...
...bother us this way?" demanded Chicago's No. 2 hood of the reporter. The hood was Sam (Mooney) Giancana, general manager of Chicago mobdom, and at that particular moment last week he was doing nothing more than throwing a $20,000 wedding reception at the La Salle Hotel for his blonde daughter. The reporter was the Chicago Tribune's Sandy Smith, 39, who rarely misses the chance to crash a mob soiree. "Sure." pleaded Giancana, "some of us are ex-convicts. but are we supposed to surfer forever for a few mistakes we made in our youth? Look...