Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just 27 days after Mao Tse-tung's death last September, Wang Tung-hsing, a close confidant of Mao's since the 1930s, set out on what seemed like a simple courtesy call on Mao's politically ambitious widow, Chiang Ch'ing. Accompanied by some aides from one of his commands, the elite 15,000-man palace guard, Wang strode into Mme. Mao's sumptuous villa in the Forbidden City - and promptly arrested her. A few hours before, he had taken into custody Party Vice Chairman Wang Hung-wen and two other Politburo figures...
...early in the 1930s when, as a country-boy corporal in the Communist forces fighting the Nationalist regime, he became Mao's personal bodyguard. He quickly rose to command Mao's entire security force; in a legendary 1947 operation, he managed to save Mao, Chiang Ch'ing and Chou En-lai from capture by Nationalist troops in their cave headquarters in Yenan...
...been uncharacteristically silent, chiefly because they liked his moderate economic views. Now Senator Robert Dole and House Republican Conference Chairman John Anderson are urging Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff to reopen his Senate Government Affairs Committee's once-over-lightly hearing on Lance's loans. Without wait ing for that investigation to get under way, Anderson last week became the first major congressional figure to call publicly for Lance's resignation. "It seems clear," said Anderson, that Lance "used his position as head of a bank, as a trustee, in effect, to further his own position...
...what he called the Life Force. He had a messianic faith that natural selection by the Life Force could enable man to produce an improved species of Homo sapiens, which presumably could comprehend the ultimate meaning and purpose of existence. That is his rationalizing sanction of the mat ing of Jack Tanner and Ann Whitefield. They might produce a brainy superbaby...
...political newcomer without a power base in the party or the armed forces to bolster his position. Moreover, Teng has become something of a national hero because of his feisty, down-to-earth opposition to the boring, bewildering political zealotry espoused by the widely hated Chiang Ch'ing...