Word: sen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reporting on his sixth expedition to Mt. Everest, British Explorer Eric Shipton described in the London Times a hard, four-day climb to a great glacier near the high peak of Menlungtse. There, in the thin snow, he found the well-marked footprints of a strange, four-toed creature. Sen Tensing, the native guide, identified the tracks as the spoor of two "Yetis"-the same weird ogres first reported by an Everest expedition of 30 years...
...surged forward, the judge shouted: "No! No! Don't beat them yet." Two of the nuns were sentenced to five years' imprisonment; the others were ordered expelled from China. Then the five were paraded, to be mocked and spat upon, through the streets of Sun Yat-sen's city...
Died. Tu Yueh-sen, 64, onetime fruit vendor who became the underworld boss of Shanghai, controlled the city's waterfront trade unions, ricksha boys and the Red Gate and Blue Societies (protection racket); after long illness; in Hong Kong. In 1927, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek split with the Communists, Tu broke up the powerful Communist-bossed General Labor Union, managed to keep Shanghai from falling to the Reds. In return, Chiang appointed him head of the Anti-Opium League, a position which gave him legal control of the country's thriving drug trade, in which he already...
When Juan Perón inaugurated the village, he praised it so highly that tears welled in Evita's eyes. The strapping President stopped his speech to kiss her. "These two tears," he said, "point to the great merit in this work, namely, human emotion." Emotion unquestionably moves Senñra Perón. But it is equally true that ( she is one of the country's biggest property holders, the boss of six Buenos Aires newspapers, the radio station El Mundo, and at least two manufacturing plants. It is commonly believed in Buenos Aires that these properties...
...movie will take the risk out of pre-game preparation, he believes. The players will not have a poor practice session to worry them, but will go into the game just having sen themselves scoring. Furthermore, the pictures will show them in actual game conditions, something which practice cannot...