Word: seale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most massive man hunts ever. Detachments of the estimated 300,000 Red troops in Tibet began to drive painfully into the rugged land south of the great Tsangpo River, which still remained in the hands of the Khamba guerrillas. Supply planes roared over Lhasa; other planes dropped paratroopers to seal off the passes north of the tiny kingdom of Bhutan, which the Dalai Lama might conceivably be heading for. To stifle all word of what was going on, the Chinese surrounded the Indian consulate in Lhasa, reduced its staff to virtual prisoners...
Behind the Wall. Chris Herter, who had gone ahead from Washington, met the President, Macmillan and Lloyd in Aspen Cottage's paneled living room. There, in the large room with its sofas, easy chairs, bridge tables, and huge fireplace bearing the presidential seal, most of the Eisenhower-Macmillan talks took place. They began after a 45-minute Eisenhower nap and lunch (tomato soup, cheese souffle, cottage pudding with lemon sauce). The first day, Herter, Lloyd, U.S. Ambassador to London John Hay Whitney and British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia also participated in some of the discussions. Ike called for Deputy...
This withdrawal would also allow the communists to seal off East Berlin, he declared, since the occupation of the city would then be legally ended. This would pllug a hole in the iron curtain, hampering the intelligence activities in Berlin by the three Western powers...
...Gules, with voided mascles conjoined, three, three, and one, or" is the heraldic description of the Quincy House coat of arms. Adopted by crusader Sieur de Quincy in the 13th century, the seal has been part of the illustrious Quincy tradition for 700 years...
...fakery of the will threw everything into confusion. Bonnard's direct heirs found themselves challenged for a half share in the estate by four nieces of his wife Marthe. The works that Bonnard had left behind-some 600 oil paintings, 500 watercolors, hundreds of drawings-were put under seal in the vaults of a Paris bank...