Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tung took ' power in Peking, China has become shrouded in a fog of ignorance almost as thick as in the days of Marco Polo. Three weeks ago, determined to separate fact from fiction, TIME correspondents in 13 bureaus around the world began a mass assault on the Bamboo Curtain. Their chief weapons: interviews with scores of latter-day Marco Polos ranging from British M.P.s to Argentine M.D.s, plus a mining of the exhaustive studies of Red China now being carried out in U.S. and British universities, and intelligence findings in many nations. Piece by piece, these findings were reported...
Crook, Line & Sinker. In Sacramento, Calif., while Joe Borrego slept soundly in his hotel room, a thief using a bamboo pole with an attached hook fished through the transom, caught Borrego's trousers, portable radio, wristwatch, and wallet containing...
...cracking down ever harder, and systematically sealing up every tiny gap in the Bamboo Curtain. The foreign press colony is now almost nonexistent in Peking. In the past six months, nearly two score Chinese servants employed in foreign embassies in Peking (including even that of "comradely" Czechoslovakia) have been whisked off to jail. Last week Mao's government ruled that the embassies and foreign business concerns could no longer hire their own employees, must accept people sent to them by the State Labor Bureau...
...rewrote the book of aerial combat, insisting on two-plane teams, dropping the first fire bombs on the inflammable architecture of the East, coaching his sky raiders to dive, squirt, pass and run. He lived on rice and red ants, coffee and cigarettes; he dwelt in mud and bamboo; he dressed in shorts and a billed, battered, nondescript cap. "Old Leatherface,'' the Chinese fondly called him, and guarded his precious store of gasoline...
...Szechuan Province, China. Mother, on the other hand, was a perfect lady from Tibet, whose nose was always cold and ears never drooped. Mother also had hopes for her daughter. And so from birth Hermione Esmerelda was always well behaved, well kempt, and never ate anything but the tenderest bamboo shoots. She looked askance upon Szechuan Pandas, especially her father, and ignored the reddish regular sized pandas or chased them up trees or called them, "Raccoons." When she grew up and weighed 200 pounds and was six feet long she intended to visit the United States...