Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...supporting the Johnson Administration's Viet Nam position, Duncan restated some pretty plain truths. He pointed out that U.S. policy since the end of World War II has been the containment of Communism. "We're not out to police the world," he said. "We did nothing in Tibet or Hungary, but we are now in a critical stage for the free world. This is a period of overall strife. Although some people describe Viet Nam as an isolated incident, it is not. It is part of a whole...
EXCEPT for flies, beggars and Americans, Communist China is not a Forbidden Land in the way in which that celebrated term applied to Tibet. In an age of satellite eyes-in-the-sky, it is certainly not Terra Incognita; its huge land mass, slightly bigger than all 50 U.S. states, lies naked before the orbiting cameras. The figurative curtain that it has drawn around itself is not of iron but, more appropriately for the Orient, of pliable bamboo. Yet of all the earth's too many closed societies, that of Red China ranks as the most ominously secretive. This...
...interested to know that while I was matriculating, which was toward the end of the depression, my roommates and I had as a pet a fullgrown panda named George. The summer before my final year at Harvard my father had brought her back with him from a trip to Tibet. I prevailed upon him to allow me to take the animal to school and keep her there, he being ignorant of the prohibition against having pets in the rooms. My roommates were of course delighted with George, and all went splendidly for almost a month. We trained...
Smith's dialogue smacks of a vintage Saturday-afternoon serial, but his fears are well grounded. A kidnaped professor possesses a secret formula for distilling the lethal essence of the Black Hill Poppy from Tibet ("A pint can kill every living thing in London"). Fu's evil daughter (Tsai Chin) seizes the professor's daughter as hostage and undertakes the dirty deeds formerly assigned to such exotics as Anna May Wong and Myrna Loy. There are vestiges of the old potency in the farfetched fights, a sinister drowning apparatus in a hideout below the Thames, the mass...
...mountain flowers are purple underfoot. Yellow lichens and red moss brighten in the morning sun, and the heavy granite block retaining wall of the caravan road to Natu Pass curves in gentle arcs up to the ridge line that forms a natural border between Sikkim and Tibet. Just over the top of this ridge wait some 3,000 Red Chinese troops, part of the 17,000-man Chinese 2nd Division headquartered at Yatung. Other Chinese battalions guard Jelep Pass and the smaller passes into Sikkim. The tough Chinese troops at Natu, whom we had come up to see, have...