Word: li
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strike-bound Liège, the Walloons' André Renard, deputy secretary-general of the Socialist-led General Workers Federation, rose to tell 30,000 workers at a union rally that the strikes must go on at any cost. A thousand rowdies broke from the crowd and rampaged through the streets, smashing the glass facade of the railway station, overturning police cars. For the first time, troops opened fire to quell the trouble; by the time they had driven the mob to the banks of the Meuse River, two strikers had been wounded by their bullets...
...addition of two years and the subtraction of ten pounds (Uncle Sam shaved off his sideburns) seem to have effected precious little difference in the Tennessee tomcat. At 25 he still looks 17, still holds his li'l ole "gweetar" at crotch level and lets the spasms run through his legs while his eyes glaze and unintelligible phrases spurt from his doll-baby mouth. Between ballads he still looks like the hero of a girl's school Hamlet...
...were engraved two microscopically thin lines, and the distance between them was exactly one meter-by international agreement, the world standard of measurement. Around the globe, other countries had copies of the bar at Sèvres, and their traditional units of length-feet (3.28 to a meter), versts, li, or whatever -were defined by reference to it. But last week the sacred bar was in effect tossed on the scrap heap. A General Conference on Weights and Measures, meeting at Paris, made a wave length of light the new official standard of length. The meter is now denned...
...trial in Taipei. First witness up was Secretary Liu, who did not testify as the News had promised. He admitted only that he had stayed in Nanking after the fall of the city, and had talked with the wife of former (1939-42) Nationalist Ambassador to Moscow Shao Li-tze, who subsequently defected to the Communists. He promised her that he would carry on Communist propaganda work once he reached Formosa. But he said that when he told Publisher Lei of his plans, Lei warned him that the security was too strict, so he did nothing subversive...
...phrase-mongers" who "assemble and sometimes distort quotations to repeat over and over again that imperialist wars are inevitable," adding that only "fools and dogmatists" could say (as the Chinese have been saying) that Russian advocacy of peaceful coexistence was a sellout to capitalism. Peking's Vice Premier Li Fu-chun promptly retorted that China's Communists "are the real Marxist-Leninists." lashed out at "modern revisionists and those who echo them...