Word: li
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Crucial Command. The most note worthy transfer was of Li Te-sheng, 61, the army's top political commissar and a member of the nine-man Politburo standing committee and of the party's military affairs commission. He was sent from Peking to the crucial northern command in Shenyang, which covers the vital industrial regions of Manchuria and the vulnerable northeast frontier with the Soviet Union. Li is considered one of the army's rising generals, and his posting to the sensitive Soviet border testified to continuing Chinese concern over the Russian troop buildup in the area...
...early '50s Li'I Abner, with its fantastic animals, the best known being the Shmoo. had for nearly 20 years proved that whimsy and literacy could be popular. Walt was no imitator: he was one of the most original humorists of our time. But Li'l Abner had prepared the public for his genius...
...Since Li'l Abner began to satirize the lunacies of liberalism, it has been written out of comic-strip history in the manner of Nineteen Eighty-Four. To those liberals who fear 1984. I suggest Walt's immortal line. "We have met the enemy...
...took further study-and a little deductive reasoning-to determine why Lady Li died. The autopsy revealed that one of her coronary arteries was almost completely occluded by atherosclerosis...
This alone, the doctors felt, was enough to kill Lady Li and, they speculate, her death was probably sudden. If she had been ill for a long time before her death, doctors reasoned, she probably would have developed bedsores. The postmortem examination showed none...