Word: li
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Nationalist China collapsed in 1949, a remnant of the Nationalists' Eighth and Twenty-Sixth Armies, commanded by General Li Mi, fell back across the border into Burma. In the wild mountains of Burma's Shan States, Li Mi put a defense perimeter around his ragged forces and then went down to Bangkok to seek arms and supplies from wealthy Chinese merchants. Soon big, green, unmarked C-46s were flying into an airfield which Li Mi's men had built at Monghsat. Li Mi began commuting to Formosa, where he was well received...
After some elder has hidden the effigy, village women and children brandishing sticks and kitchen knives search the villages, crying, "Qui bo' li?" (where is he hiding?). Then entire populations, including stiff-jointed ancients and bare-bottomed small fry, join in the Ra Ra processions that snake out into the countryside, laughing and joking and singing creole chants to the accompaniment of throbbing tambours and booming vaccines (huge bamboo pipes that give off hollow, resonant notes when blown). Waving clubs, machetes and old colonial swords, they thrash through the ravines and cane-brakes, and if by chance they first...
...Hope of the Gentry. But fate was simply fattening Big Jim for the kill. A Galveston Negro, Jack ("Li'l Arthur") Johnson, won the championship from Tommy Burns at Sydney, Australia in 1908, and millions of ring fans were suddenly seized with the idea that civilization itself was threatened by the "Black Man who wore the belt." Johnson, who was disconcertingly tough and disconcertingly outspoken, openly intimated that he was as good, or better than any man who ever lived, and the hysteria grew. Saloon orators cried that Li'l Arthur had a skull an inch thick...
...when Britain's King Edward VII stepped out of a shop in Carlsbad and accosted him. The King, who had been picking out silver foxes for a lady friend, wanted to know when he would beat Johnson. Jeffries came home, and on Oct. 29, 1909 signed to fight Li'l Arthur 45 rounds or to a finish. There was jubilation from coast to coast...
...insists, "non-typical." Unlike such weepy radio competitors as Young Dr. Malone and The Guiding Light, Moore tries to run his program on the lines of a comic strip: "No one show of mine fractures you all by itself. But, in continuity, they go over&151;just like Li'l Abner or Pogo." Moore's formula is convincing sponsors as well as viewers: this week Masland rugs joined his six other advertisers (Kellogg, Deepfreeze, Duff's Baking Mix, Ballard & Ballard, Best Foods and Stokely-Van Camp) to give him nearly a commercially full house...