Word: pagoda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where the first Buddhist council was held, when he had a vision of a great gathering of monks chanting the scriptures in a similar cave. In 1948 an unknown hermit sent U Nu a walking staff engraved with the words Siri Mangala (glorious prosperity) and instructions to build a pagoda. If the pagoda were finished by 1952, the hermit said, great buildings would grow up around...
After searching for a suitable site, U Nu found one about seven miles from Rangoon, coincidentally named Siri Mangala, and there erected his pagoda. Around it, the site of the sixth Buddhist council is nearly completed, with some two dozen buildings, including a man-made cave (to recall the setting of the first council) large enough for some 15,000 people...
...Americans and one Briton made a shabby showing last week as they received the press in the "Peace Pagoda" at Panmunjom. They were poor trophies for any ideology. Twelve had previously earned the contempt of their fellow prisoners by acting as camp informers for their Red masters. Two were marijuana smokers, another was homosexual. Their average age was 23½ more than half came from broken or unhappy homes...
Nixon's most improbable and convincing exhibition of U.S. campaign methods was carried off before a ruined pagoda in Pegu (pop. 21,000), an ancient Burmese town 45 miles north of Rangoon. A crowd of a thousand Burmans awaited him in Pegu. Among them were a hundred Communist demonstrators carrying placards, one quaintly inscribed in English. "Go Back Warmonger, Valet of Wall Street." A sound truck blared anti-American propaganda. Nixon on arrival walked up to the nearest card carrier and said, "I notice these cards are addressed to Mr. Nixon. I am Nixon, and I'm glad...
...lacquered table in the Communists' new pagoda at Panmunjom this week, Lieut. General William K. Harrison stonily signed his name to 18 copies of a U.N.-Communist agreement for an armistice in Korea. Across from him, resplendent General Nam II also signed. Twelve hours later, the cease-fire went into effect and the guns were silent...