Word: li
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...radical wing. Yao, fortyish, who is officially listed as No. 6 in the party hierarchy, is also rumored to be Mao's son-in-law. According to the story put about by the Soviets and Nationalist Chinese and never denied in Peking, Yao is married to Hsiao Li, Mao's daughter by his third wife Chiang Ching. The far-left Chiang Ching happens to be a close political ally of Yao's. There have been serious ideological differences between Chou and Yao, and some Washington experts believe that the wily Premier may have been singling...
...generously gave the D.D.R. entrants the top three scores. Other judges saw matters differently, and the East German girls finished third, ninth and tenth in the finals. In the prone small-bore-rifle competition, Victor Auer of the U.S. appeared to have outpointed North Korea's Ho Jun Li, 598-595, despite raucous heckling by Li's countrymen, who steadfastly ignored the officials' reprimands. When the shooting stopped, the Koreans demanded an examination of the target. Two hours later the judges reversed the computer's decision, awarded Li four more points and proclaimed him the gold...
...make his services even more attractive, Captain Brubaker engaged in a bit of huckstering. As a sort of twist on Marryin' Sam's gimmicks in Li'l Abner, he advertised that he would tailor his services to suit the family's taste. They may have rock, Rachmaninoff or Anchors Aweigh if they so choose...
...artistic director of the Central Philharmonic Orchestra is Li Teh-lun. He is a round-faced, portly man who smiles when asked how the Cultural Revolution affected his orchestra and replies: "That is a long story." When pressed gently for a response, he says: "There was a change in the content but not the form of the orchestra." Then he explains how the orchestra no longer plays Western music publicly but rather adapts the best from Western music into new Chinese compositions. He says that Western music is still played privately. But the subject seems to pain...
...used to carry his briefcase himself, and the umbrella." Mao's so-called "Eight Additional Rules" for troop conduct included "Put back the doors you use for bedboards" and "Don't bathe in the sight of women." One nagging personnel problem was the German agent known as Li Teh, who annoyed Chou by his "need for female companionship," yet was so big that "small and thin women could not put up with him." Eventually he was fobbed off with a stout girl named Hsiao-until she deserted during the march...