Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, the Nabakalebara Yatra (ancient ritual of changing the bodies of the god) can be performed every 20 years. But the interesting thing about it is that no one is allowed to see the sacred thing which forms the "soul," and surely anyone who touches it must die. The priest whose task it is to switch the soul from the old to the new body is chosen for his outstanding sanctity, but he never survives the ordeal. It is a fact that the Bhitarachha Mahapatra died immediately after this duty was last performed...
...last week replied to a press conference question asking whether he had a "new concept of the presidency" or whether he was "just feeling better?" Replied the President: "Perfectly simple. When you have a situation that has gone on, as we have had this cold war, since 1945 . . . there must be no gun unfired and no individual effort spared." To do the job under such circumstances, said Ike, "takes, therefore, possibly more personal activity than I think would be normal in more normal circumstances...
...want him to see our great industrial plants and what we are doing. I want him to see a happy people. I want him to see a free people, doing exactly as they choose, within the limits that they must not transgress the rights of others ... I am just telling you what I-the kind of thing I would like to have him see of America...
...Telephone & Telegraph Corp., launched but lost a fund-raising drive to save his old flagship Big E from the scrap heap. "Remember!" he rasped. "Scrapped ships will not rest peacefully in deep blue waters beside the gallant Lexington, Wasp, Hornet, Houston, Atlanta, and all the brave others. Our Navy must remain strong!" Last week, on Fishers Island in the peaceful grey waters of Long Island Sound, Bull Halsey, 76, died in his sleep of a heart attack...
...Radio Peking, "rests with the U.S. and the Sananikone government." Peking accused the U.S. of trying to turn Laos into a U.S. military base. "This naturally poses a threat to China and [North] Viet Nam. To eliminate the tension in Laos, all American military personnel and arms and ammunition must be withdrawn, all U.S. military bases must be abolished...