Word: chai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burden. He is fond of the indolent Siamese town of Luang Nakon, where he makes his headquarters. He likes the routine of his work and the evening drinks at the run-down sahibs' club. He enjoys his friendship with the only non-white member of the club, Major Chai Wut, the police chief. But in 1953, John Crane faces upheaval, knows it and resents it. "Why are they telling us to go?" he asks Major Chai. "I don't only mean us, the English, but white men everywhere...
...major's answer sets the underlying mood of Briton Norman Lewis' knowledgeable novel about one sahib's last stand in the Far East. Framing his reply as "what others are saying," Major Chai says: "The white man by his teaching created a demand for justice, and as soon as the demand was existing, removed this product from the market...
...youth, Rhee had attended the Pai Chai Methodist Mission school, and now the missionaries and their wives visited him in jail. There he became converted to Christianity. When the Japanese took over Korea in 1904, Rhee was released in a general amnesty and immediately went to the U.S. For six years he studied in American universities, got an M.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Princeton. Back in Korea, while heading up a Korean Christian student movement, he began undercover agitation against the Japanese. When the conquerors got his number, he slipped off to Hawaii...
...enter the government immediately. By this time (1895), Korea, though still independent, was under heavy pressure from both the Russian and Japanese empires. Shrewdly concluding that a Western education and knowledge of English would be useful to a future Korean official, Rhee became a student at Pai Chai College, a Methodist mission school in Seoul. At Pai Chai he was exposed not only to English but to Christianity and Western political thought...
...Arctic regalia, crawling into a tepee on hands & knees and having to squat on the saliva-spattered ground while the smoke from the bonfire blinded one. Our favorite expression soon became klootna-kloon [too much smoke] . . . and it was flattering to enter the wigwams and be greeted with chai-wootcha [good woman...