Word: proclaiming
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...took the Bolsheviks ten years to proclaim their first five-year plan. Last week the eager pupil outdid the master: only three years after the Communist conquest of China, Peking proclaimed a five-year plan. Said Premier Chou Enlai: "With the national territory entirely liberated, with the exception of [Formosa], with bandits now liquidated, and with agrarian reform nearly completed . . . the time has come...
School Bored. In Hurley, N. Mex., junior-high-school Students Donald Broome and Martha Manners were made joint principals-for-a-day after winning a magazine-sales contest, were swiftly removed from office when their first official act was to proclaim a school holiday...
...Egypt, meanwhile, diggers at Sakkara uncovered a 4,000-year-old tomb from the Sixth Dynasty. There, only bright, well-preserved wall paintings still proclaim the baggage that the dead king kept to use at his resurrection. Unlike Mayan monarchs, Pharaohs of that age were too poor for jeweled funerals...
...days later, President Johannes Dieckmann of the lower house of the East German legislature stepped before a cheering .throng to proclaim formally the East German Heroes of 1952. As the names were called, the crowd turned expectantly toward the place of honor reserved for Heroes. The others were there, but not Willy...
...high lama, the Dharma Raja, who was believed to be the reincarnation of Buddha himself, and a temporal leader, the Deb Raja. Finding a new reincarnation of Buddha when the old one died was always a trouble. It involved waiting several years and then finding a baby who would proclaim his identity by recognizing certain suitable symbols. By 1907 Bhutan's lamas, grown fat and indolent with centuries of rule, got too lazy to hunt for a new Raja. The government was taken over by a local governor, the Tongsa Penlop, a fighting politician who got himself elected Gyalpo...