Word: palanquins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protruding ears of a Buddha, the moles that marked the traces of a second pair of arms, the ability to pick out from a collection of objects-rosaries, canes, drums for summoning servants-the ones that belonged to the old man. In 1939, aged 4, seated on a golden palanquin, he was borne to Lhasa, where he was soon enthroned as the 14th incarnation of Chen-Re-Zi, the patron god of Bo (Tibet), and thus became for more than 3,000,000 followers the Living Buddha, the Holy One, the Tender, Glorious One, the Mighty of Speech, the Excellent...
Greatest of the Merina kings was Andrianampoinimerina ("The Prince desired by the Merina"), who ruled from 1787 until 1810. Riding in state about his kingdom in a purple-draped palanquin, he divided the country up into well-administered provinces, organized a corps of professional civil servants. His warrior son Radama I-a stern disciplinarian who would warn his soldiers, "Better to advance and risk being killed by the enemy than to retreat and be sure of being burned alive"-carried on his work. He imported British soldiers to train his army, welcomed the schools of French and British missionaries...
While New Delhi spoke, Nepal's Prime Minister Maharaja Mohun Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, 64, a devout feudalist,*was journeying from the little Himalayan kingdom (6,000,000 pop.; 54,000 sq. mi.) to republican India. It took him 15 days by foot, horseback and palanquin over windswept ranges to reach an Indian railhead. A special train bore him on to New Delhi, where Nehru waited. In black cap and brown leather churidar, Rana stepped down onto a red carpet. He put his right foot first, to insure an auspicious beginning and end for his visit. Nehru welcomed...