Word: li
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professors provide the college with its major worry, according to Prof. Kwan Li, a young literature teacher who was severely criticized during the Cultural Revolution. "I myself used to put vocational training and intellectual theorizing in first place," he said. "But I can see now that the students who struggled against me were correct...
When it comes to politics, Li'I Abner and Pogo, which have satirized it for years, are at least as up to date as the men in Washington. Two characters that bear a remarkable resemblance to Senators Hubert Humphrey and Hugh Scott were recently dispatched to Li'l Abner's Dogpatch to learn why it is the one pollution-free spot in the U.S. Reason: the Gobbleglops, which look like pigs with bunny tails, gobble up, in the words of Mammy Yokum, "all glop, irregardless . . . They's natcheral-born incinerators. Thass why glop goes...
...Li Shui-ching, who was here to dedicate a factory. President Yahya talked informally with reporters and expressed some unusually tough warnings to India. But the only evidence of war that night was the blackout which was quite unnecessary...
Yahya thanked China "for renewing the assurance that should Pakistan be subjected to foreign aggression, the Chinese government and people will, as always, resolutely support the Pakistan government and people." Then it was China's turn. Peking's own special emissary, Li Shui-ching of the First Ministry of Machine Building, spoke glowingly of Chinese-Pakistani friendship, but he carefully avoided any mention of the tension with India or of specific aid from Peking. Then, in a surprising and symbolic gesture, he released a boxful of doves...
...every possible cent of profit during their current cash squeeze, and because the two-drink limit on domestic flights was hard to enforce, that prohibition has been quietly dropped. Now an air traveler can order as many drinks as he wants, within reason. On each $1.50 drink of roughly li oz., the lines make about $1 in profit...