Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most wonderful of all, however, is the island setting itself. A crazy paradise of flowers and vegetables watered by a bamboo shoot irrigation system, with chicks and ducks squawking away in coops and homemade wine chilling in the well in the cellar. It is colorful and peaceful, save for the screams and yells escaping from Nelly...
...balls, woven with exquisite precision in raised white silk, refer to a Heian court game called kemari, an aristocratic and pointless kind of football with no rules. The game consisted of several players kicking a bean-stuffed ball around a courtyard in which stood certain trees-cherry, maple, pine, bamboo and (here worked in gold thread into the red ground) willow...
...from an extraordinary variety of ailments: cancer, TB, liver disorders, emaciation, unexplained fevers, fainting spells and subcutaneous bleeding, among others. She is a great believer in nature cures, which she urged on Witke, including a potion made of lotus stock (to ease urination), a solution of sea water and bamboo (good for the gums) and dried white lilies (curative powers not specified...
...Comrade Chiang Ch'ing is prepared!" These words were the summons to leave the guesthouse, where we had been waiting, and begin the drive to Chiang Ch'ing's villa. Leading to [the] villa was a narrow winding road flanked by deep bamboo groves. In them, young PLA [People's Liberation Army] guards, bayonets glinting, were partially hidden...
...walked along, Chiang Ch'ing spoke briskly and excitedly. We had to pick our way gingerly to avoid being impaled on the glinting bayonets held by young PLA guards hidden in the bamboo thicket lining the narrow pathway...