Word: refugee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chinese Communists characteristically ignored this latest gesture of appeasement. Last weekend, while British officials were lunching in the members' boxes at the Happy Valley race track, Red troops emplaced a new battery of 105-mm. howitzers on the Wanshan Islands 30 miles southwest of Hong Kong. The government of...
Critic Emily Genauer thinks she knows why people accept abstract art so tranquilly, "[it is] a welcome avenue of escape...momentary refuge from the concrete image and specific facts of...chaos."
Into his soft-lighted pawnshop with its softhearted proprietor (Eddie Dowling) flutters, one day, a young girl (Joan McCracken). In full flight from a gangster husband, she has taken refuge inside a 16th Century dream world. Sometimes she dances, sometimes declaims, sometimes just dresses up like Queen Elizabeth. The gangster...
Plots to William Shakespeare were as pots to a busy wizard-any old tub, begged, borrowed or stolen, would do to mix the magic in. In The Tempest, for instance, the plot is the tired old story about a nobleman, bilked of his estates, who takes refuge on a distant...
Two months ago, Nepal's King Tribhubana fled from the despotic rule of his hereditary Prime Minister Rana and took refuge in India (TIME, Nov. 20). Last week King Tribhubana got ready to return to his throne. Prime Minister Rana had agreed to changes in the Himalayan kingdom which...