Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been enthusiastic TIME readers for many years, including several in postwar China until the Bamboo Curtain grew too rigid . . . [But] can you find me anyone who knew anything about China from the inside or outside who did not report in 1948 that "Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist regime was 'tainted by corrupt and reactionary elements'; it had 'lost the heart of the people,' who had turned to Communism as their only hope?" In fact, those are very mild descriptions of the situation, and would be accepted by businessmen, military officers, missionaries and diplomats...
...Exchange's day-to-day operation would bug many a Wall Streeter's eyes. Every day some 1,500 traders pack into a trading area only 75 feet square. On busy days, few can find room to move; they transmit their buying & selling signals by waving their bamboo fans. Their method of recording transactions is painfully cumbersome. One of the biggest brokerage houses has only one battered Remington Rand machine, does most of its arithmetic at machine speed on primitive abacuses. Frequently, its brokers and clerks have to work to 2 and 3 a.m. to catch up with...
...insatiable curiosity is equaled only by her dauntless enthusiasm. She strides earnestly through each new city, inspecting everything from museums to maternity wards. When she got to Africa for the filming of The African Queen, she caroled: "What divine natives! What divine morning glories" and began searching for a bamboo forest, because she wanted to know what it would feel like to sit alone in the middle...
Behind bars in the Philadelphia Zoo, where he has been looking with distaste at people ever since he was brought from French Equatorial Africa as a puny, 11-lb. baby, Bamboo, now a quarter-ton, 6-ft. evil-tempered gorilla, celebrated his 25th anniversary of confinement with a "birthday cake" made of cod liver oil, peanut mash and oyster shell, with a watermelon for dessert. The anniversary also chalked up a record. Bamboo, whether he likes it or not, is the only gorilla ever to survive a quarter-century in captivity...
...dawn of Japanese history were globefish-gutted, puffed, dried, and filled with live fireflies. The lanterns that pleased Hirohito's grandfather, and have been a delight ever since, are more complex. They are designed to transform candlelight into globes of muted color. Each one requires up to 120 bamboo strips, no thicker than toothpicks, which are bound together with silk threads to make a collapsible frame. The frame is covered with eight sections of silk or oiled paper, painted with traditional figures. Gluing the shell to the frame is the hardest part of the job and is done mainly...