Word: roughness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cave. This week in Rangoon, 500 monks chanted through the last of 1,600 hours of reciting aloud the 14,804 pages of the Tipitakas,† the Buddhist scriptures. They sat in a "cave"-a vast jumble of rough boulders on the outside, and a blue, gold and scarlet auditorium within (capacity: 15,000), which was built by Burma's devout Premier U Nu to house the Sixth Buddhist World Council (TIME, June 7, 1954). The council has been going on for two years in this facsimile of a real cave (where the first council was held...
...Bulganin he had found "suave, restrained, and very easy to converse with. He gave an impression of reserved strength," but Khrushchev "struck me as a man who was not really very sure of himself, and therefore tried to give the impression of being a strong, rough man." Both Tito and China's Mao Tse-tung had impressed Attlee more with their quiet assurance. "That is perhaps natural for they have far more of actual achievement behind them. It may be that Khrushchev is just a passing figure, destined to be liquidated as so many others have been. There...
...resurface one tier would cost roughly $12,000. Because Soldier's Field is not completely dry, a contractor's rough estimate for new courts, complete with drainage and fences, is high--between $4,500 for clay and $6,000 for asbestos-composition, which needs no rolling. This is less money than the amount alumni are trying to raise for the restoration of Memorial Hall...
Khrushchev had also destroyed the personal image of himself as the jovial, rough, goodhearted peasant. "The man's impossible," snapped Nye Bevan. "A fanatical Communist- very different from Malenkov," said Gaitskell...
...weight of ten losses against no victories, and the fact that some of these have been by overwhelming margins--5 to 20 under Syracuse, 2 to 7 under Williams--the varsity has had some very good moments against opponents much stronger than the undisciplined football crews that have run rough-shod over them...