Word: flotsam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main indication of this has been the grisly flotsam of bodies floating down the flood-swollen Pearl River to Hong Kong and Macao (TIME, July 5). The number by last week had reached 66, most of them tied and mangled. Last week the China-watchers got another indication of the state of affairs in side China when a batch of newspaper photographs reached Hong Kong from Wuchow, a river-trade city in the Kwangsi region of South China. Although blurred and faded, the pictures provided the first photographic proof of the recent ravages caused by factional fighting...
Swollen to flood stage by recent rainstorms, the muddy Pearl River last week washed some grisly flotsam onto the shores of the islands that hug South China. On Hong Kong and Macao, 43 bodies drifted to shore-many brutally slashed and six of them trussed, their arms and legs roped to their necks. The Pearl's cargo confirmed, in dramatic fashion, reports from the mainland by travelers, press and radio that the worst factional fighting in a year is spreading throughout much of China, particularly its southern half...
...know," Holt suggested. "Let's go to Cheviot Beach" -a lonely, rocky stretch 21 miles from Holt's beach home, and one of the most dangerous beaches in the Portsea area. When the five arrived, the tide was at crest, and ugly chunks of wood and flotsam bobbed about on the sur face. "I had never seen it like that before," Mrs. Gillespie says. But Holt decided to go in anyway. "I know this beach like the back of my hand," he insisted. After all, he had been swimming there since 1926, when as an unmarried law student...
...thus spells out the vision of man which informs all his fiction: "We stand among the flotsam, the odd shoes and tins, hot-water bottles and skulls of sheep or deer. We know nothing. We stand where any upright food-gatherer has stood, on the edge of our own unconscious, and hope, perhaps, for the terror and excitement of the print of a single foot...
...from flotsam, the 2,500-year-old artifact from the once-barbarian state of Ch'u in China's Middle Yangtze region promises to provide a key for deciphering archaic Chinese. It may shed light on links between early China and civilizations of the Pacific and South America. And it should surely yield an understanding of early Chinese legends, calendars, religion, society and astrological beliefs...