Word: ais
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Symbol of Pride. The Chinese called her Ai Wei-teh ("The Virtuous One"), the nearest they could get to Aylward. As the years went by, Ai Wei-teh's fame spread, and she was often called in for help and advice by Chinese officials. But one thing troubled her: her British passport seemed to her a symbol of pride. "I have given up my home and my parents for God," she told herself. "But I'm still different . . ." So she tore up her passport and became a Chinese citizen. The notice was posted on the doors...
When the Japanese invasion drew nearer, Ai Wei-teh shepherded more than 100 homeless children on foot to a representative of Mme. Chiang Kai-shek's, a 27-day journey away. But Gladys Aylward has no memory of their safe arrival. She collapsed from exhaustion just before the end, and was taken delirious to a hospital. This year, the China Inland Mission, which once told the London parlormaid that she was unfit to be a missionary, bought her a round-trip ticket to England...
There was a faraway look in the marinated eye of a waiter at Manhattan's Copacabana nightclub. He leaned back against a plaster palm tree, listening to the liquid tones of the songstress running over the lyrics of Bali H'ai. A yokel at a side table dropped his fork. The waiter glared, snatched up the fork, jabbed a clean che at the customer, and sank back against his palm tree...
...nearly so well known is its 200-year-old sister society, Lloyd's Register of Shipping. It rates the seaworthiness of the vessels that Lloyd's insures, keeps day-to-day tabs on 30,546 ships, and was the first to employ Ai to mean tops. (To get the rating, a ship's construction must be approved by Lloyd's surveyors...
Woof. A.B.S. promptly accepted the challenge; it opened its own London office and this week appointed its own surveyors in ten British and Irish ports. The London Daily Express, watchdog of the empire, let out an angry woof: "Ai at Lloyd's [Register] is under fire from the U.S. The men who run America's ships want to ... replace it with an O.K. of their...