Word: shangri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elephants. Laos, once known as Lane Xang (the Land of a Million Elephants), is the Shangri-La of Southeast Asia. It is mistily mountainous, covered with tiger-haunted jungle and elephant-inhabited rain forest, and can only be reached by air, by traversing two very bad roads, or by sailing up the mighty Mekong. Half its people are Thais, living in the lowland valleys; the other half are primitive Khas and Meos. Huge, smiling statues of Buddha dot the landscape, and saffron-robed Buddhist monks are everywhere. Wearing scarlet jackets, gold and silver beads and bracelets and flowers in their...
...Eisenhower golfs, is how their respective vacations have interfered with the job of president. Roosevelt had an excellent system for assuring the public and Republicans that his vacations were well spent. He merely labeled Hydc Park the "Summer White House," Palm Springs the "Vacation White House," and said Shangri-La, his Maryland retreat, had the prefect atmosphere for writing important speeches...
Kenya, the "White Man's Shangri-La," is famed for its big game, its purple hills and russet downs. Thirty thousand whites grow much of Britain's coffee in its exclusive White Highlands, rule 5,500,000 blacks and 100,000 Indians with a strong hand, and now live with guns at their sides in fear of the terrorist Mau Mau secret society...
Publication of the CRIMSON casein temporarily today, so the editor can retreat to their private shangri-la high in the Andes and tunnel their efforts into a gargantuan 30-page eightieth anniversary issue. Cambridge's only breakfast table daily will great post-vacationers on January 5 and the anniversary publication to due four days late...
Stretching for some 190 miles along the southern slopes of the Himalayas, north of India and south of Tibet, lies the most remote kingdom in the world. The upland valleys of tiny (18,000 sq. mi.) Bhutan are as green and inviting as those of Shangri-La, and the passes that lead into them just as forbidding. Icy winds howl along the snowswept plains behind the mountain passes to discourage the traveler. Rugged barriers of snow and ice rise as high as 24,000 ft. Dense semitropical growth clogs the lower valleys. Fever haunts the forests, making them uninhabitable...