Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DELHI, India, March 22--Fires were reported seen today in two Buddhist monasteries in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, possibly indicating that Chinese Communist forces had shelled or bombed them in an effort to put down a large-scale rebellion...
...have never seen another place where a sheriff could swagger around the polls advising voters: "I don't give a goddam who you vote fer-I'm gonna be your sher'f." And anyone who went fishing in Wallins Creek after an election was more likely to hook a ballot box than a fish...
...Burns's strategy paid off. Alaska's victory softened almost all further opposition; even Sam Rayburn, long opposed to Hawaiian statehood, decided to go along. And even Virginia's stubborn Rules Committee Chairman Howard Smith had seen the handwriting on the bill, decided that he could not prevent its movement to the floor (TIME, March 16). Added to that was the momentum of the Senate's victory, planned by Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who had even won over some Southern defectors (although not such diehards as Virginia's Harry Byrd, Mississippi's Jim Eastland...
...Crescent. On the third day, still stung by the discovery that an Arab street mob could jeer his name, Nasser in Damascus ordered up what his press unblinkingly called "the largest Arab anti-Communist demonstration ever seen." The crowd had been whipped up by Friday sermons in the mosques. It was given a martyr's pageant of its own, similar to the one in Baghdad: a lugubrious cortege for a wounded Iraqi captain who had fled Mosul when the revolt failed, and died in a Damascus hospital. Nasser crowed that "the banners of Arab nationalism" would...
...publicity picture? The nice thing about them is that they don't look like me. If you had just seen the picture and then saw me on the street, you wouldn't recognize me. That's the whole point...