Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your grandchildren and mine will remember Communist China's Foreign Minister Chou En...
With apparent inconsequentiality, U Nu chattered on about his country. "Burma is a hot country. In all the three seasons-summer, the monsoon and winter-people are perspiring." He added blandly: "I had seen that his Excellency Premier Chou En-lai was perspiring profusely under the fans." It was a sly dig: in Burma, a man is said to be "sweating under the fans" when he has something on his conscience...
Plainly, Chou En-lai had been sweating profusely behind the mask of peace...
...Surana raced with his cops to the nearby village of Lahardi, arriving just in time to halt another and even grislier religious ritual. Instead of attending a government-sponsored rally in honor of the dignity of manual labor, as they were supposed to, the peasants of Lahardi had flocked en masse to a hillock to watch a holy man being buried alive...
...year-old Montreal fighter-pilot was serving as an exchange officer with the U.S. Air Forces in Korea when he was shot down in 1952. At the Geneva Conference last June, Canada made a direct appeal to Chinese Foreign Minister Chou En-lai for MacKenzie's release, but the Chinese did nothing about it until the eleven U.S. flyers were recently sentenced to prison in China for espionage (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Then, the same day that the Americans were condemned, Peking suddenly announced that MacKenzie would be released. Three Red Chinese soldiers escorted the Canadian to the barricaded China...