Word: changing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Belgian infantrymen were the most recent arrivals. Last Wednesday Korean Premier John M. Chang went down to the docks in Pusan to welcome a 650-man Belgian battalion. With it came 50 volunteers from Luxembourg...
...southwest. Under one-eyed General Liu Po-cheng, parts of it recently marched into Tibet and are lending aid to the Indo-Chinese Reds against the French. Liu trained for his profession at the Red Army Academy in Moscow, once fought with the Red Russians against Manchurian Warlord Chang Tso-lin, led the vanguard of the epic Long March from central China to Yenan in 1934-35, rates as one of the army's boldest tacticians...
...nexus of flesh and tissue that joined Chang and Eng together at the waist is not an inherent trait in the Siamese (Chang and Eng, as a matter of fact, were Chinese). Such an anatomical caprice might occur anywhere, in any multiple birth. Fortunately, it rarely does. Most doctors believe that congenitally joined twins are the result of an imperfect splitting of the egg during gestation. The resultant monstrous births may be two complete individuals like Chang and Eng, joined at a single point. Or "they" may be a single individual equipped with an extra (generally useless) arm, leg, head...
Many joined twins, like Chang and Eng, have lived long, full lives in their connected state, married and produced children. After leaving show business in 1840 with a nest egg of $60,000, the original Siamese pair married sisters Adelaide and Sarah Yates, adopted the name of Bunker, and settled in the house where Farmer Robert died last week. Both were good farmers. Eng was a sobersided teetotaler; Chang a temperamental tippler. Once, say the Carolina neighbors, the brothers were repairing the roof of their house when they had a quarrel. Chang seized a hammer and threatened to clout...
...Chang once had a paralytic stroke which left Eng perfectly healthy but inextricably linked for three days to his immobilized brother. In 1874 Chang died of a lung infection. Three hours later, Eng followed...