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...celebrated and great city, very rich and respected, very wise and strong, [where the people] lived in fine palaces, some made of pure jade, some of silver, and some of emeralds without flaw...
Mexican archeologists, working carefully with equipment that ranged from trucks to toothbrushes, had found no palaces of jade or emeralds. Already excavated: a great pyramid used for sacrificial rites, the magnificent, though ruined, temple of Quetzalcoatl; a double T-shaped "basketball" court used in ancient ceremonial ball games; two eight-ton monolithic statues, among the largest ever found in Mexico. As yet unexcavated, but measured and probed, were several large palaces, some containing as many as 30 rooms...
...jade Tuxtla statuette from Mexico, earliest (98 B.C.) dated monument of the New World...
...also changed. No timid jade, once the job was his, he pushed Australian industry and manpower toward all-out effort. And he began to bellow at London...
...knife. The second smuggled in firearms from the hill-men, and killed only when he had to. The youngest killed for pure joy and found joy in nothing else. Ling Tan too, who had once been unable to see a chicken die, killed without feeling. His daughter-in-law, Jade, managed, by poisoning some ducks, to kill off Japanese banqueters in the city. At Ling Tan's signal, slouching and timid crowds of villagers would suddenly fall upon, murder and bury any small enough group of enemy troops...