Word: chai
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lunch was hurried since we had a 4 1/2-hour drive to Washington ahead of us. It was 1:30 and we were shooting for a 6 o'clock reception at the Chinese Liason office where Liaison Chief Chai Tse-min and Vice President Mondale would formally celebrate normalization. Fortunately we had unwittingly stumbled into the tension of the Chinatown demonstration, a curious prelude to the evening...
...Chinese Liaison Office is located in the old Windsor Hotel, a drab yellow, undistinguished-looking building on Washington's Connecticut Avenue. We arrived late. A few policemen stood outside, unoccupied. Inside people were standing attentively, listening to Liaison Chief Chai Tse-min and his interpreter...
Andy Chaikovsky (number four) and Greg Kirsch (at six) took it easy on the crowd by winning their 'azor-thin matches in just two sets each, with Chai zapping Jeff Papell 6-and-4 and Kirsch--a rare Harvard clay-court specialist--taking Andy Caufield in successive tiebreakers...
...first and second serves hurts his game...best shot is backhand...played well on spring trip, registering 3-2 mark...was ranked number two in New England 18-and-unders, and was voted best sportsman in N.E. juniors...has won "Ukranian Open" in Catskill Mountains last two years...nicknamed "Chai," "Chaik," or "Chavatz...
...correct translation of chai on Rod Carew's chain is "life" and not, as you stated, "health." The word is made up of the Hebrew letters chet and yud, which together form the word chai- life. But then again, if one has health, one has life...