Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summit, was firmness against Soviet aggression in Germany or anywhere else. But the guide line of U.S. aims and ambitions, as measured by the human spirit since man saw Prometheus steal fire from the gods, was perhaps better characterized by 1) a mellow old man who had spent his life seeking new frontiers of truth and order, and 2) seven young men on the threshold of high adventure...
...British prosperity in 1959 is still a near thing, maintained only by rigid economic controls, and it could be destroyed at almost any moment by a shift in international trade patterns. To the hard-pressed British taxpayer, the $4.2 billion a year spent on defense represents capital that, if the cold war ended, Britain could devote to the investment on which its economic future depends...
Religion is lived by all the people. Hundreds of lamaseries house thousands upon thousands of monks and nuns whose days are spent in meditation and prayer. There are nearly as many Living Buddhas as there are lamaseries, including one female incarnation whose name translates as "Thunderbolt Sow." Prayer is everywhere, on the lips of men and on flags and bits of paper stamped with woodblock imprints of the sacred words: "Om mani padme hum [Hail, the jewel in the lotus)." The phrase flutters from tall poles outside villages, from trees and cairns; it is stuffed inside the chortens' hollow...
...Dalai Lama's peasant family came with him to Lhasa, and his father was made a noble, but he saw little of them. His days were spent with monkish tutors, in learning the Tantric texts of Lamaism and the complex religious ceremonials. At night he went to sleep in the enormous, fortresslike Potala, and could hear the palace gates close harshly and the ringing shouts of the watchmen as they marched through the long, twisting corridors. Without playmates or attending parents, the Dalai Lama matured early, and at 14 he visited Lhasa's great monasteries of Drepung...
...armed forces a leftist and fellow-traveler network reaches high up: Argentine-born Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, commander of Havana's La Cabana Fortress, who joined a militia of Arbenz Communists in Guatemala; Army Commander in Chief Raul Castro, Fidel's brother, who spent 1952-53 studying in Prague and Budapest; Alfredo Guevara (no kin to Che), boss of the army information program; Major Manuel Pineiro, commander of Oriente and supervisor of a secret training center in Santiago, where anti-American propaganda is used to indoctrinate officer candidates...