Word: pagoda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were many Communists in Burma's jails, but Rangoon's police itched to get their fingers on one more. Hefty Thakin Soe had cost them face. Arrested, he slipped out of their grip and fled into Rangoon's famed Shwe Dagon Pagoda. Police right behind him had to stop and remove their boots before entering the Buddhist temple. For most of a day bootless police combed its labyrinth of passages and rest houses, guarded every exit. They paid little heed to a bent and evidently blind nun who slowly made her way down the main steps...
...pestilence-ridden China, the pagoda-like buildings of Peiping Union Medical College ("Johns Hopkins of the Orient") have been a symbol of medical hope. Started in 1921 with Rockefeller money, the college was the birthplace of Chinese public health work, and trained many of China's modern medical leaders. The Japanese looted it, and after V-J day it served as headquarters for General George Marshall's abortive peace mission. Last week the college had an electrifying rebirth: the Rockefeller Foundation gave $10 million to restore and reopen it at better than prewar strength...
...partly pious, partly sensual intention was to smoke opium and contemplate a successful, sinful life that began in peddling doughnuts and culminated in ruling the fabulous gambling industry of the Orient's Monte Carlo. Foo's celebration was under way when three Chinese entered the hilltop pagoda, pulled pistols from their long black gowns and whisked him away in a black sedan. Four days later his son received a preliminary ransom demand: one picul of gold (133⅓ lbs. in weight, more than...
...altars in the woods. She lived in a dreamworld peopled with overwrought heroes and heroines. But when her grandmother died, 18-year-old Aurore promptly married Casimir Dudevant, whom acid Poet Heinrich Heine later described as having "the tepid vulgarity, the banal nullity, the porcelain stare of a Chinese pagoda...
...clad themselves in white mourning and the straw shoes of grief. Under the uneasy eyes of Jap gendarmes, 200,000 gathered in Seoul, the seaside capital. At two hours past noon, in thunderous mass unison, the people whipped forbidden banners into the air, shouted "Mansei!" ("Long Live Korea!"). In Pagoda Park a committee of 33 read a declaration: "We herewith proclaim the independence of Korea...