Word: pagoda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worked an 18-hour day, began to make profits. He bought some adjoining property for a parking lot, made more profits, then bought a restaurant. It had been a dry-cleaning store, but Lee transformed it with Korean paintings, installed several ponds filled with goldfish and built a tiled pagoda roof on top. He called it The V.I.P. Palace. "Sometimes Korean VIPs come to Los Angeles and they go to eat at a Japanese or Chinese restaurant, so that is why I built this place," says Lee. His next project starts in September: a hotel...
...necessity at times in the postwar decades, its ease and electronic entertainment value have turned it into a sport of sorts that claims too much of a President's time and energy. This thought must have occurred to Jerry Ford about halfway down the sheer steps from a pagoda towering over Peking's Summer Palace, which was the breathtaking extravagance of the Ching dynasty's Dowager Empress Ci xi; she diverted $50 million worth of silver earmarked for her navy to rebuild the paradise. Ford pondered the steep descent, and his mind wandered back home...
...more than $500 million) and his eight palaces, four of them with golf courses designed by Robert Trent Jones. When Hassan dies, he expects to be ensconced in the mausoleum he has had built for himself in Rabat, a $7.5 million structure that looks like a cross between a pagoda and the Taj Mahal. Not bad for a onetime playboy prince who cut a sybaritic swath through Paris in the 1950s, lavishly displaying his enthusiasm for women, fast cars and Western clothes...
...reports from Cambodia under its new Khmer Rouge regime?which already claimed a seat in the United Nations?were disturbing. Refugees reported executions of 100 wealthy or religious figures?and the numbers might rise. Four monks were said to have been shot to death on the steps of a pagoda when they refused to leave...
...believe that the North is bent on a dramatic battle for Saigon. But reducing the city to rubble would increase the likelihood of bitter-end opposition to Communist control by the many well-organized political groups within South Viet Nam?groups like the Buddhists of the militant An Quang Pagoda faction, the Hoa Hao and Cao Dai religious sects, and powerful Catholics like Father Tranh Huu Thanh, who organized effective protests against the Thieu government, not to mention the many thousands of police, militiamen and regular soldiers...