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Word: kung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Relax & Enjoy It. Hankow's Chang-chiang jih-pao reported on the gay life of the Suichuan District Party Committee in southwest Kiangsi province. By adopting the attitude, "Now that victory has been achieved, why shouldn't we enjoy ourselves a bit?" Party Secretary Chiao Erh-kung had "led a depraved personal life." Police Chief Lu Pin had "specialized in dinner parties for women guests," each time "spending the equivalent of the vegetable allowance of 70 members of his bureau." After squandering the bureau's entire budget (7,000 Ibs. of rice), Lu had embezzled party cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Squeeze Play | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...cast of a female Peking cranium, fondly known as Suzanne, was built up into a composite skull. Then, early last spring, Dr. Pei Wen-chung, one of the men who found remnants of Peking man in a limestone cave at Choukoutien, sounded off in the Chinese Communist newspaper, Ta Kung Pao. The Japanese had indeed captured the fossils, he said: they had been shipped to Tokyo, later seized by American forces and shipped to the U.S. Last week Dr. Yang Chien-kien, head of the Chinese Institute of Anthropology at Peking, joined the chorus. Americans, he said, had stolen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bones of Contention | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

...Maryknoll leaders in Wuchow were arrested about the same time as Dr. Wallace. In Hong Kong last week, the Communist newspaper Ta Kung Pao reported the arrest of 19 people in Tientsin as spies "under the camouflage of the Catholic Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Modern Martyr | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...customs officers, eying the party, remarked that it was "just like an Easter parade." The men in General Wu's group all sported new Fifth Avenue suits. Miss Kung Pu-sheng, third in the delegation's rank, wore two orchids on her mouton coat. Miss Chou Yen, probably No. 8 in the group, rated only one orchid on the worn fur coat she had brought from Peking. Newsmen asked who gave them the flowers. The women answered: "Does it matter? Is it vital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Like an Easter Parade | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

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