Word: lao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yenan last week the Communist elite of the onetime Red capital seemed gone for good, but the natives of the place-whom the Chinese Communists loved to call lao pai hsing (the common people)-were drifting back to town from their temporary and dusty bivouacs in the Shensi hills. TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin looked on, then cabled this account...
...salted turnips and bean curd now & then, meat once or twice a year. On this fuel, if he is not yet slowed by tuberculosis or premature age, he can jog four miles an hour; at a canter, he can do six. There is a style to ricksha pulling. Author Lao Sheh (Ricksha Boy) says ricksha pullers take pride in an elastic, steady gait. Two Old China Hands once put it this...
...years a resident of California and a latter-day disciple of California's mystic Gerald Heard, has called his newest book The Perennial Philosophy (Harper; $3). Under 27 headings, Author Huxley has presented the principal tenets of mysticism in his own words, illustrating by quotations from Mystics Eckhart, Lao-Tzu, William Law, many another...
...defeat Japan, he said, the U.S. should land on China's coast-but only with a small force. What China mostly needs, he said, is supplies; lao ping, not the G.I., would shed his blood for the continent, and thus few U.S. divisions would be diverted from the Japanese mainland...
Letters to the Editor. China's press and leaders suddenly became articulate about the plight of patient lao ping. Said General Feng Yu-hsiang: "The military set-backs will do us more good than harm. The more defeats we suffer, the more daring is the press in expressing its opinions. Previously we knew little about the fact that our soldiers were underfed and thinly clad." In a national campaign to "comfort the troops," great sums of money were collected. Little was donated direct to the Government for disbursement by slow-moving bureaucrats. But millions of Chinese dollars (on current...