Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...policymaking" ministers without portfolio-swarthy ex-Premier Chang Chun and puckish General Chang Chih-chung, both outspoken advocates of peace (and presumably coalition) with the Communists. Temporarily absent were two other policymakers-Sun's predecessor, Geologist Wong Wen-hao, and Conservative Chen Li-fu, chief whipping boy of Communist propagandists...
Lily-White Lynn. Young Patrick learned to skate in British Columbia. But from the time he was five years old his mother was dead set against his choosing hockey as a career. Says Lynn: "Mother didn't want to see her lily-white boy mixed up with those rough characters."† Instead, he was sent to the University of British Columbia to study dentistry. When he flunked out a year later, his father reluctantly agreed to let him play hockey: "I think he thought I'd be lousy and get it out of my system." Lynn practiced eight...
...training camp, crusty Lester Patrick tried to cut Lynn from the squad, but Frank Boucher persuaded him to keep the boy on. Says Lynn: "It wasn't easy to work under dad." The other players distrusted him, the fans booed him, and his father was rougher on Lynn than on anybody else. But by 1942 Lynn was one of the National Hockey League's top scorers, made the all-star team, and was popular with fellow players...
Most of the class looked at the problem with dejection, but the tall, skinny boy with unruly blond hair started scratching on a piece of paper. In five minutes he had the correct answer. This week the smart boy, now 34-year-old Professor Kenneth S. Pitzer of the University of California, will step into what is now the most important scientific job in the world, replacing Harvard's Dr. James Fisk as director of research of the Atomic Energy Commission...
Swing Shift. In Matsuyama, Japan, eight-year-old Tojo Shinagawa's father changed his son's first name to Kiyotoshi, explained that the boy was fed up with classmates asking when he would be hanged...