Word: ling
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...temperament and the times were well matched. It was 1942: Japan had just bombed Pearl Harbor, and the Republic of China was struggling to resist the invading forces of imperial Japan. Soong Mei-ling, then 45 and the wife of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, happened to be in the U.S. for medical reasons. Seizing the opportunity to champion her country's cause, she summoned all her energy and flashing-eyed eloquence to the task of urging the U.S. to side with her embattled land. For seven months, Madame Chiang, as she was best known in the West, seemed...
...Chiang's wife, she was Born Soong May-ling in 1898 on the island of Hainan - site of the spy-plane incident that marked the first foreign policy crisis of the Bush administration - Madame Chiang was raised as a Christian and educated at Wellesley College where she graduated in 1917. Her sister, Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the nationalist leader who created modern China after overthrowing the Qing imperial dynasty in 1911. May-ling married the young Kuomintang (KMT) general Chiang Kai-shek in 1926, a year after he'd taken control of the party and the year before...
...every so often Westerners rediscover its riches. "China, and its abundant heritage, offers boundless inspiration," says Stanislas de Quercize, president and CEO of Cartier, whose company this April launched a new line, Le Baiser du Dragon (The Kiss of the Dragon) with designs invoking Chinese openwork screens and fen ling wind bells. Cartier's diamond wish-knot pendant has already sold out. Sophie Albou, founder of Paul & Joe, a French clothing line, claims Japan as the primary influence for her most recent collection: "People always gravitate to Japanese floral prints, as the colors are so beautiful." --By Isabel C. Gonzalez
...Equally troubling, Wang and another nurse, Lo Wen-ling, 27, claim that a more senior nurse in their intestinal-disease ward instructed them to list suspected SARS patients as suffering from "pneumonia." They say they were also ordered not to tell the patients' families that the true diagnosis was believed to be SARS. If contacted by the media, adds Lo, she was ordered to say that "there were no SARS patients in Hoping." These instructions, claims Wang, were said to have come from "high up"?meaning upper management...
...nice lunch with blockmates, then Ling section, where my TF was like “Wow, I can’t believe you actually came.” And then after about 10 minutes he decided he wasn’t feeling well and we all went home. That class is a joke...