Word: summered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in 1956 marauding Khambas from towns bearing such names as Amdo, Goluk and Derge began ambushing isolated Chinese units. The Reds waited until several Khamba tribes gathered together for their summer encampment, then struck back with a savage air strafing and bombardment. The Khambas grimly surrounded a Chinese base at Kardezh in eastern Tibet, forced the Reds to supply it by airlift. Other Khambas cut roads, raided munitions depots, tied down troops. Chinese settlers brought in by the Communists wilted under the savage Tibetan climate, native hostility, armed attack. Tibetan Communists or loyal government workers proved difficult to recruit...
Education. In the vast (1,400 rooms) winter palace of Potala, the Palace of Gods, and in the smaller summer palace two miles away, the young Dalai Lama spent his days studying religion and philosophy, and training in the practices of dyhyana (meditation) as developed by the Mahayana Buddhist School. His mother was the only female he was allowed to receive within his household of servants, monks, abbots and the State Oracle, given to appropriately vague pronouncements ("A powerful foe threatens . . ."). The few Western visitors who, bearing sacred scarves, got audiences, found him a studious, insatiably curious and dedicated...
...trumpeters know is that while tootling they approximate the effects of "a formidable Valsalva maneuver," i.e., a hard nose-blow with nostrils and mouth blocked. To find out just how formidable the effects are, London's Dr. E. P. Sharpey-Schafer and California Musician Maurice Faulkner last summer sat down in London. Faulkner huffed his way through several trumpet passages, including a phrase from Wolfram's Song to the Evening Star in Act III of Tannhäuser. In reporting their findings in the British Medical Journal, the researchers noted that...
...conference, but he wanted to get right down to setting a summit date. At Camp David, President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan agreed 1) on a foreign ministers' conference to begin on or about May 11 (TIME, March 16), and 2) to go to the summit late this summer. Addendum: the West will accept Polish and Czechoslovakian representatives as observers, but not, as Khrushchev had demanded, as participating delegates. Macmillan made a minor concession: no exact date was set for the summit conference. But the U.S. made a major concession: the summit conference was not made contingent on success...
...defined aims in the Middle East: 1) the immediate one of ending Western-sponsored defense pacts and neutralizing the area, and so creating what Leninists call a "zone of peace"; 2) the ultimate, but much more ambitious aim, of turning the Middle East into a "zone of socialism." Last summer's sudden overturn of the pro-Western regime of King Feisal and Nuri asSaid in Iraq radically changed Russian aspirations. An Iraqi Communist Party emerged intact from Nuri's jails and from underground and successfully joined with Kassem in opposing the merger of Iraq and the U.A.R...