Word: kun
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Roots I, and ends in 1967, the year Alex Haley went to Africa to search for traces of his ancestor Kunta Kinte. In the hours be tween, the show charts the lives of four generations of the author's family. The first segment ends with the death of Kun ta Kinte's grandson, Chicken George (Avon Long); by the final episode the viewer has briefly seen Haley's own chil dren. As before, public events are dramatized in terms of their effect on one black family. But the post-Civil War his tory covered by Roots...
...thousand Chinese youths gathered on the shores of Lake Kun Ming, plunged into the water and swam 15 abreast to the accompaniment of rhythmic whistling. They were commemorating Chairman Mao Tse-tung's swim down the Yangtze River six years ago. When Mao took his dip, according to official press reports, he "at times swam side stroke and at other times he floated and had a view of the azure sky above." Mao was reported by his hagiographers to have swum nine miles in 65 minutes-a lot better than last week's youngsters, who climbed out after...
...Even as a young parish priest, Mindszenty was no stranger to jails: he was imprisoned for his outspoken opposition to the short-lived Communist takeover of Bela Kun in 1919. His rise in the Catholic hierarchy was a reward for his unflinching loyalty to the church and the people of Hungary, both of which he defended against a grim succession of political tyrannies. During World War II. he fearlessly denounced the Nazis and aided Hungarian Jews; finally, in 1944, Hungary's Fascist regime imprisoned him. After the war, by then a Cardinal and the nation's highest-ranking...