Word: li
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After watching, listening to and reading about the McCarthy-Stevens hearings, I have come to the conclusion that the only way we will ever get at the truth is to place one of Li'l Abner's "Bald Iggles" in a conspicuous place, where each witness must stare into those "sad, reproachful eyes that pierce souls...
Underneath his Li'l Abner façade, he is a shrewd businessman. His official tournament earnings over the years amount to $250,000. Local matches and exhibitions (at a flat fee of $1,250 per exhibition) have probably doubled his take...
This is a side of slick Chou En-lai that the world has never been permitted to see. His more familiar talent-the ability to bob, weave and pirouette-was developed in party intrigues. He sided or seemed to side with one faction (e.g., Li Lisan, once the party boss) only to wind up in the end, unhurt and at the elbow of the ultimate winner, Mao Tse-tung, sometime librarian at Peking University. With his Whampoa training, Chou shared command of Mao's peasant armies with Chu Teh, the wily soldier whom Chou had the wisdom to recruit...
...included a vocabulary in re- verse: groups of words listed by their last letters. The a's, for instance, run from ba (the soul of man in ancient Egypt) to zamia (a cycadaceous plant). The i's have such useful quickies as ai (a three-toed sloth), li (Chinese unit of measure), obi (a Japanese sash worn with a kimono) and tui (a parson bird...
Cartoonist Al Capp, creator of "Li'l Abner" and "Fearless Fosdick," heads the list of definite entertainment. Other performers will include Tom Lehrer '47, the Wellesley Widows, the Mahogany Hall All-Stars with Vic Dickinson, and three student acts...