Word: liens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here. But a sequel, possibly by the same author (who may be the famed 16th century scholar and statesman Wang Shih Cheng), describes how the scoundrel's virtuous widow, Moon Lady, and her infant son suffer for Hsi Men's egregious gong-kicking. The work is Ko Lien Hua Ying, or Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain, translated into German by Sinologist Franz Kuhn and now passed on to English readers, fire-bucket fashion, by Translator Vladimir Kean. The result, somewhat surprisingly, is wry and readable...
...Battle of Quemoy 1958 began early last August, when Chinese Nationalist reconnaissance pilots flying RF-84 jets over the Formosa Strait spotted Communist MIGs on two previously unoccupied airfields at Cheng-hai and Lien-cheng facing Formosa and the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. The evaluation: Red China, locked up inside its borders since the Formosa Strait crisis of 1954-55, was once more on the move in Asia. The confirmation: Red China's air force opened up a careful reconnaissance of Quemoy...
...unhinged at the end of three different rounds. But still he came on, and Sugar Ray left the ring a broke and beaten man. Although the referee disagreed, a pair of judges transferred his crown to the bloody skull of Carmen Basilio; federal agents slapped a $514,310 tax lien on Sugar Ray's purse...
Brewster was also identified as having okayed a $17,000 union loan to help get another Seattle gambler out from under a federal tax lien. Dave Beck himself, it was said, ordered a $30,000 loan to finance a saloon operated by a University of Washington classmate of Dave Beck Jr. in a building owned by Teamsters' President Beck...
...Tiger. In Taipei, Formosa, after Bus Driver Lien Maying bit a hole in a passenger's hand when he tried to board her bus with an armload of vegetables, the judge ordered her to pay $6 damages, observed: "It was not ladylike...