Word: chu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brother, headed south across the most forbidding mountain country in the world to join the Khamba tribesmen who had launched Tibet's revolt against Red Chinese tyranny. For 15 days the Dalai Lama and his tiny retinue traveled by foot and by mule-back, first across the Kyi Chu River, 25 miles south of Lhasa, then on up through the 17,000-ft. Che Pass...
...usual, Mao blamed his troubles not on his policy or his own execution of it, but on the rank and file below. So far as anyone knew, he was still plainly in control. A trusted, aging comrade, most likely General Chu Teh, would probably get the job of head of state (the same sort of job held by Kliment Voroshilov in the U.S.S.R...
...city dweller lives under the baleful eye of a "street committee," most often run by a self-important woman. Wives are encouraged to write posters drawing attention to their husbands' shortcomings-and do. With depressing frequency newspapers throughout China carry reports such as the following: "Young Wei Kuo-chu, a student at Shin Tung High School, Shanghai, is cited and congratulated for having denounced his father as a counter-revolutionary...
...outside world knows little about the man who is generally ranked No. 2 to Mao Tse-tung. Greater headlines have gone to Chou En-lai and to Marshal Chu Teh, but the man next in line is presumed to be Liu Shao-chi, Moscow-trained party theoretician. Last week Red China published his 16,000-word keynote speech to the 19-day closed session of the eighth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. His confident theme: "In the past the party concentrated its efforts mainly on socialist revolution . . . Now we can and must concentrate on socialist construction...
...radio drama called Three Blind Mice. Author Christie later expanded it into a stage play, The Mousetrap, thought it might run a couple of months at best. The day after The Mousetrap gave its 2,239th performance at London's Ambassadors' Theater, thus passing the musical Chu Chin Chow as the longest-running play in British stage history.* Producer Peter Saunders gave a hotel-jamming party for a few (1,000) friends, who cheered as Author Christie presented the theater with a gold-and-silver mousetrap. Murmured she on the triumph: "I suppose it's just like...