Word: li
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nanking, qualified observers agreed that the last forlorn hope for successful U.S. mediation between Nationalist and Communist forces had all but vanished. On the northern shore of Shantung peninsula, rifles sang and mortars whispered as Nationalist troops besieged Communist Chefoo. Across the Yellow Sea in Manchuria, Lieut. General Tu Li-ming's Government armies were clearing out the peninsula south of captured Antung, preparing for the climactic drive on Harbin (see map). In that target city and in the now-isolated Red capital of Yenan, there was no observance of Chiang Kai-shek's natal...
Cartoonist Al Capp, who invented Lena to rib fellow Cartoonist Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould's horrifying collection of comic characters, insisted that his own Lena was too ugly for him to draw. He asked the 27,000,000 readers of Li'l Abner to show their notions of how she looked. It turned out to be the comic promotion stunt of the year: everybody seemed to want to draw the ugliest woman alive, and a million repulsive drawings came in. Capp and three strong-stomached judges (Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff, Salvador Dali) picked the worst...
...Yenan, defiant Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung called for unlimited guerrilla warfare from hundreds of Red village bases. In Manchuria, Communist Li Lisan, who had opposed Mao in internal Communist politics 20 years ago (TIME, Sept. 9; Sept. 23), was urging a separate, Soviet-backed state...
Starting for the Yardlings will be: Bailey or Bachalter, g; Harrop, rf; Scully, lf; Joseph, rh; Bell, ch; Langman, rh; Chase, ro; Spivak, ri; Toppan, cf; Gilbert, li; Morgan...
Before he has gone ten li, his feet will...