Word: en
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Secretary of State John Foster Dulles joked that he would meet Red China's Chou En-lai only if their cars collided. In the maroon-carpeted council chamber in Geneva's Palais des Nations, Dulles never looked at Chou. But Chou's placid face seemed to hold a cobralike fascination for U.S. delegates, who watched his every move. During refreshment time, Chou moved to the buffet table for an orange juice, flanked by Russia's Molotov and Gromyko and followed by platoons of bodyguards with bulging shoulder holsters...
With rhetorical sarcasm, the U.S. Secretary of State asked at Berlin: "Who is this Chou En...
...exiled governor of Formosa: "He has killed people with his own hands." From a U.S. officer who, like many others, once trusted Chou: "I left thinking he was a friend ... If I saw him today I think I would kill him." And from Chou En-lai himself: "You must't forget that I am a Communist...
...were inundated; in west Texas, schools closed and highways were awash with silt-brown water. At Snyder, Texas, an earthen dam, weakened by the long, dry spell, gave way; 50 oil-well sites were flooded out. Near Hobbs, N. Mex., 100 sheep marched into a flooded ditch and drowned en masse...
...them in all) to see the Pacific in style over a leisurely 99 days, picking up memories and mementos in exotic ports from Pitcairn Island to Singapore. In Kobe, the first of two stops in Japan, they lost no time adding to the collection. Heading virtually en masse for the Great Circle department store, they bought out its entire stock of high-priced screens, dolls and kimonos. "Incredible," murmured one dazed floor manager, "the more expensive the items, the better they sold...