Word: flee
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...streets, panting to explore Tibet and its particular brand of Buddhism, but lacking permission to get in. Last week, as they have since the Chinese Reds invaded Tibet in October, Kalimpongians waited breathlessly, along with rumormongering newsmen (TIME, Nov. 20), to welcome the Dalai Lama should he flee from Lhasa into their midst, as his predecessor did in 1910. The town had one big worry. If he comes, will the Tibetan God-King bring enough sheets? In 1910 frenzied devotees kept ripping the exalted exile's linen to bits to preserve as sacred objects, along with the dust from...
...next day, Harry Truman flagged Peking with a message which was a mixture of mild indignation and reassurance. It complained that U.N. forces were being attacked by planes which fly from the "privileged sanctuary" of China, "and then flee back across the border." Mr. Truman did not think this was cricket. Said the President solemnly: "We have never at any time entertained any intention to carry hostilities into China . . . We will take every honorable step to prevent any extension of hostilities into the Far East...
...North Korean guerrillas were increasingly harassing the Allied rear. They attacked supply trains and raided stations, and caused many Korean villagers whose Allied sympathies were too well known to flee their homes. At Yongyong, the guerrillas destroyed six U.S. 155-mm. guns...
United Press Correspondent P. D. Sharma, however, managed to scoop them all without even leaving New Delhi. "The Dalai Lama, 16-year-old boy ruler of Tibet, has fled from Lhasa," he cabled last week. "He made the decision to flee after four of his cabinet ministers were killed in battle...
Wild animals in "freedom," says Dr. Hediger, are not really free. They follow restricted routines punctuated by terror. Each has a "territory" or a social rank from which it cannot budge without a battle. Each has enemies, including man, from which it must constantly flee. Wild animals are often hungry, sexually frustrated, diseased. Few of them reach maturity. The lucky ones, thinks Dr. Hediger, land in well-run zoos...