Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unreal. World exploding around us. Sit on ground taking notes. Soldiers pop up around us, fire short bursts and then sink back into brittle bamboo. Purple smoke spirals upward on north, pink on south. Rockets crash and thud. 50-cal., thud. M-16 pops. Suddenly, all fire stops and movement shifts to north. Land smoldering, wall of burning tree stumps...
...Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing (pronounced Shing-Shing), took up residence at the National Zoological Park in Washington, where they were welcomed by Pat Nixon. Still too young to mate, they will live in separate air-conditioned suites, each with a 1,000-sq. ft. living room furnished with bamboo trees and plate-glass picture windows and each with a private den to escape from tourists...
Exit: The girl has fallen for someone else. The Tramp sets off, his back to the camera, his bamboo cane a parenthesis of melancholy. Abruptly, the little shoulders twitch, the leg shakes off tragedy like a cramp. The head snaps to attention. Step, skip, step-the Tramp is restored, off once more on the unimproved road to Better Times...
...outskirts of the city, I passed the new Nanking Iron and Steel Works, four-story red-brick apartment blocks near completion, and a whole series of water-conservation projects. Teams of men sang as they hefted a huge stone with ropes and tamped the earth into place. Women with bamboo baskets on yokes carried earth to build retaining walls. Schoolchildren with shovels marched in line to a day's work in the fields...
Expertly wielding chopsticks, she downed some chicken and bamboo shoots and, without a wince, a fiery stuffed pickled squash. "It's delicious," she said, slyly offering a bite to one of the attending newsmen. He chewed, swallowed and blanched. "Very spicy," a Chinese interpreter said belatedly. Then, turning down a proffered egg roll, the guest of honor pleaded: "If I eat any more, I'll need all new clothes." Finally, like a dutiful neighbor promising to return a borrowed cup of sugar, she said to her hosts: "When we have the reunion at the White House...