Word: words
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like to put in a word for Farmer East. You have put your finger on the inadequacies of our poor farmers in Vermont, but at the same time suggested a solution. All they need to get them out of the doldrums is a two-story pipe organ in each and every farmhouse. Then they can bat out Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring to their heart's content, without the annoying interruption of having to run out to the barn and pull switches for ten minutes...
...When word reached the ship that the wife of one of the seamen had been killed in an auto accident and his two children injured, Gralla would not permit the radio operator to break silence to acknowledge the message. Six weeks later the crew pitched in $1,000 to send the seaman home from Rio on a commercial plane...
...commander in Tibet, the coming of spring promised revenge for the indignities of winter. He was no longer tied down by the bitter weather and snow-clogged roads, forced to submit to the fierce hit-and-run raids of the rebellious Khamba tribesmen (TIME, March 16). Now he got word that 25,000 Khambas were concentrated only 40 miles north of the capital city of Lhasa. The tribesmen were supported by 8,000 Buddhist monks who, after the Reds looted their monasteries, traded prayer wheels for guns...
Last week the irritated Red commander sent another message to the Dalai Lama, peremptorily ordering him to report alone, even without his senior abbots, to Red headquarters in Lhasa. As word spread among the 55,000 inhabitants of the city, angry Tibetans thronged around the towering, 40-ft. Potala (Winter Palace), so that the Dalai Lama could not leave it, even if he wished to. When the Dalai Lama's mother heard the news, she burst into tears, and a crowd of weeping women surged around the Indian consulate general, begging help for the Dalai Lama. Some Lhasans broke...
...Orlovsky did not say a word during the entire reading, and it was only during the question period that, upon the urging of the audience, he read three of his short poems...