Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yellow Hat. The nation's sole defense over the centuries was the Three Precious Jewels of Tibetan Buddhism: the Buddha, the Doctrine and the Community. Power lay with the contending monks and noblemen. The Red Hat sect, which allows its lamas to marry, was gradually overborne by the celibate Yellow Hat sect. This was made official in 1557 when a Mongol khan gave the seal of rulership to the leading Yellow Hat monk and named him Dalai (Ocean of Wisdom) Lama. The fifth Dalai Lama is famous for building the vast Potala. He also felt the need to honor...
...NATIONAL AFFAIRS) was Tibet's Dalai Lama, who, at the cost of physical defeat, won a psychological victory. Red China's rape of Tibet stirred the neutralist powers of Asia as the Soviet rape of Hungary never had. With shock, Asians suddenly realized that there could be "yellow colonialism" as well as "white colonialism...
...political asylum to the Dalai Lama, he was still busily placating Peking. When Red China charged that Kalimpong was the "command center" of the rebellion, Nehru at first denied the charge, then admitted that the border town was indeed a hotbed of spies-"spies who are Communist, antiCommunist, red, yellow, pink, white." He refused to be bothered by the fact that the Chinese embassy circulated an editorial repeating the old Kalimpong charges even after he denied them; after all, he said, the West sometimes said some nasty things about India, too. When M.P.s pleaded with him to condemn Peking...
From the long driveway that leads up to Iraq's huge, yellow-walled Ministry of Defense, a Bofors 40-mm. dual-barrel gun last week glared out at the city of Baghdad. Backing it up were leveled .50-cal. machine guns and recoilless rifles mounted on Jeeps. And even such visitors as got past the gun-toting sergeant at the ministry door were never more than a few feet from the business end of an automatic weapon. Padding up and down the corridors of the ministry, young officers of the Iraqi army kept firm hand on submachine guns...
Fuggerei, as the walled district came to be known, was 80% destroyed in an Allied bombing raid in October 1944. But it has been rebuilt in the old style-a quiet place of little yellow-and-green medieval houses, where vehicular traffic and "noisy trades" are prohibited, and where the four gates are locked at 10 p.m. nightly, as they have been since 1521. Anyone who stays out too late must...