Word: ch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...China, during the Ch'ing dynasty, the Emperors' Pekingese were suckled by wet nurses, raised by eunuchs and given royal rank. Tsunayoshi, the "Dog Shogun" of 17th century Japan, distorted his nation's economy to pamper his 100,000 canines. Ovid and Catullus wrote poems to commemorate the deaths of their mistresses' birds, and trendy Romans kept pet turbot. Today a dog's vita can be just as dolce. Three years ago, Lady Beaverbrook booked all the seats in the business section of a jumbo jet so that she and her pooch could travel in solitary comfort...
...Student Associationmeetings told me that I wasn't Chinese. But itwasn't until spring of senior year that I learnedan appropriate label for myself: Asian American. Ideclared East Asian Studies as my concentrationfreshman year, and was awakened to academics bythe late Professor Fletcher's course on power inthe Early Ch'ing Empire. Yet, only the opportunityto participate in a Dunster House seminar on AsianAmericans, finally offered this spring, allowed meto see myself. Approximately 40 students of Asiandescent crowded into a seminar meant for 10, readyto "discover the issues" together...
...native public during my work at theMuseum of Science. "Well, even though I'm ofChinese heritage, I was born in America. In fact,my Chinese probably isn't too much better thanyours." What hasn't been explained to me iscrossing Mt. Auburn street to the strains fromtownies' cars of "Ch'ing ch'ong (sp.?) sianara(sp.?)" amplified and distorted by the Dopplereffect. More frightening was being accosted lateone night by very drunk and white Harvard men with"Hey China girl, let's see what's in yoursleeves." Ha, ha, ha, ha, HA. "What makes youthink you're any better than...
...public criticized the media's coverage of the episode, but it also watched attentively. Without the benefit of instant ratings, television knew what the public wanted and what it had to deliver. Was it successful? Fifty-seven percent of the sample in a WCVB-TV (Ch. 5) poll said the media devoted too much attention to the story; they were watching a WCVB broadcast about the crisis at the time...
...Marine Corps Air Station at Iwakuni, 662 miles north of Okinawa, it was Friendship Day, an annual occasion when Japanese visitors are invited to tour the base and view displays of planes, weapons and vehicles. Among the crowd-pulling exhibits were two Sikorsky CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopters, the Marines' workhorse troop carrier. The two choppers, similar to those used in the ill-fated attempt to rescue U.S. hostages in Iran in April 1980, had flown in for the event from their base in Okinawa. When the display ended, they left for home...