Word: chieh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chieh-sheng, daughter of famed Marshal Ho Lung by one of his early wives (he has been married nine times), achieved revolutionary fame by denouncing her father as a "despicable swine." She is now an important member of the cultural cadre, boasts that she is closer to Mao than to her own parents...
Indoor Whirlwind. While Florida was still cleaning up its storm damage, another tornado started spinning in Washington, D.C. But this one was manmade, and it whirled with promise. Generated in a laboratory at Catholic University by Chinese-born Dr. Chieh-Chein Chang, head of the university's space sciences department, the indoor twister probably came closer to simulating a real tornado than any other artificial storm ever produced. By carefully analyzing its characteristics, Chang hopes to learn how to build structures that will better withstand the deadly twisters and perhaps point the way toward more accurate prediction and even...
...China's admission to the U.N. was proposed once again by Russia's Valerian Zorin, despite the much-heralded Moscow-Peking split. Said Nationalist Chinese Ambassador Liu Chieh: "World peace is threatened at this very moment by two international bullies, one of them responsible for the grave situation in the Caribbean, and the other on the Indian border; and yet the first has the effrontery to propose that the second should be seated in this organization." Obviously agreeing, the Assembly rejected Red China by 56 to 42, with 12 abstentions, a slightly larger margin than last year...
...point was eloquently voiced in the United Nations by Nationalist China's Representative Liu Chieh, in a retort to Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin. "Weapons," said Liu, "cannot be intrinsically differentiated into good ones and bad ones, but the man who carries the weapons can be easily differentiated. A revolver in the hands of a gangster is not the same thing as a revolver in the top drawrer of a peaceful citizen. Whether a person is a gangster or a peaceful citizen depends on his record. And what a criminal record international Communism has written for itself in recent years...
...spanking new Peking headquarters, Mao and his henchmen changed their tune. With the rural communes so solidly established that 400 million Chinese peasants now eat in community mess halls, the Red commissars were ready to crack down on city dwellers. To the chorused cheers of 1,063 Congressmen, Liu Chieh-po. vice president of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, triumphantly announced that communes had been established in most of China's cities, had been successfully imposed on the majority of urbanites in the three populous northern provinces of Heilungkiang, Honan and Hopei. All told, boasted...