Word: locke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Templer arrived back in Malaya to find that a Chinese leader, Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan, had already made a start toward solving the problem...
...Cheng-lock Tan, 69, is Britain's best Chinese friend in Malaya (he was knighted last year for services to the empire). A stalwart antiCommunist, whom the Reds once tried to assassinate, Tan founded the Malayan-Chinese Association in 1949 to provide Malaya's Chinese with a spiritual alternative to Marxism. At first, the association stuck to practical philanthropy: it forked out $650,000 to help resettle Chinese squatters moved out of bandit-infested jungles. But Tan was not satisfied. He threatened to resign unless the association backed his political program, and he got his way. Henceforth...
...Oregon Short Line Railroad earlier in the summer, and had a $1,500 price tag on his head. Bank Cashier A. D. Noblitt spoke carefully when they walked in on him and began waving their six-guns under his nose-he had to tell them that the time lock on the vault would not open for an hour and a half...
...disillusioned youth, enticed by promises of the best wages, food and clothing. When recruiting lags, state factories discharge young workers and state employment agencies offer these unemployed a choice: join the Vopo or work in the uranium mines. Leaves are hard to get and liberty uniforms are kept under lock. Each month an average of 90 to 100 Vopos get fed up, desert to the west. Probably no more than 30% of the whole force are ideologically certified Reds. In fact, the Russians, like the western allies, show some reluctance to rearm Germans. Their two prize Nazi trophies, captured Generals...
...cabins, dresser drawers lock in place and do not rattle; bathroom light fixtures are angled above the mirror to reflect directly in the shaver's face; shower valves are thermostatically controlled to prevent the water from getting too hot. From every cabin, travelers can phone to anywhere in the world...