Word: ch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jean de Berry's appetite for possessions was extreme. He liked animals; so his menagerie included 50 swans, a wolf, a camel, an ostrich, 1,500 mastiffs, and a number of tame bears which, lurching along in specially designed carts, followed the duke on his frequent moves between chàteaux. As with beasts, so with priests: "He maintained in his home," wrote one chronicler, "many chaplains who day and night sang the praises of God and celebrated Mass, and he took care to compliment them whenever the service lasted longer or was more elaborate than usual...
...life pension, but he taxed his subjects so fiercely that they rioted. Worse, from the aspect of practical politics, he chose the wrong faction in the struggles for the French throne, so his house in Paris was sacked by a furious mob in 1411, and one of his châteaux, stuffed with works of art, was burned...
...Ch'iao Kuan-hua, 58, First Deputy Foreign Minister and Chinese Ambassador to the U.N. Erudite and skillful, Ch'iao is a career diplomat of prestige and power and perhaps Chou's closest associate in the ministry-he has accompanied him on all his foreign travels, including trips to Geneva in 1954 and 1962, and Bandung in 1955. Though listed by the Chinese as a participant in the Nixon talks, Ch'iao was still in New York-hosting a party for the city police-as of last week. He is a principal adviser on American affairs...
...American friends, grew up and went to high school in New York City. Last year she served as Edgar Snow's interpreter during his visit to China, and was also a member of the Chinese delegation to the U.N.-along with her father, T'ang Ming-ch'ao, who served as deputy representative...
...west and north, 6,000 miles in all, to reach the barren cave-pocked lands near the Great Wall northwest of Yenan. Failure at any one of a dozen points would have meant extinction of Communist hopes, possibly forever; but success meant more than mere survival. Veterans of the Ch'ang Cheng would wage war against the Japanese and finally take over all China. Today, wreathed in age and honors like Mao, they occupy four or five hundred of the country's key military and bureaucratic positions...