Word: lu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians aimed to sell, the Hong Kong traders probably aimed to buy-although no one could be sure. All Ottawa knew was that the pair-one Liu Liang, a manager for the China Resources Co. who toured Canada in 1958. and a sidekick, Yang Lu-liang-had asked for hurry-up visas last month, and were seldom seen after they arrived all but unnoticed in Montreal aboard a Trans-Canada Airlines plane...
...patrician matron of Imperial Rome could have been more intransigent, bellicose and stoic. Despite invincible fear of air travel, she flew with Duff in countless trips to zones of war, sometimes "hard-arse" (Lady Diana's phrase). She endured inconceivable official tedium, the horrors of the Indian "lu."† saw a second English generation of her class face death (on Dday, "two Mannerses"), and for a time, in "dung-covered boots," fed swill to pigs on a Sussex farm. Her bits on the horrors of life under British austerity are done with sharp irony. Lady Dufferin's goldfinch...
...them. From now on, Kasavubu added in a pointed reference to Lumumba, all foreigners should deal only with the new 28-man High Commission Mobutu had installed as temporary rulers of the Congo. The High Commissioners themselves called a press conference to criticize Nkrumah's efforts to steer Lu mumba: "We denounce colonization of African countries by Africans!'' shouted one Commissioner...
...post office clerk with a limited education. Lumumba was sending off some fairly polished and legalistic notes. Their phraseology led foreign diplomats to wonder who was writing his stuff. The answer seemed to be that Lu mumba is now surrounded by a growing coterie of Red-lining advisers. Besides the Congo's latter-day Madame de Stael. handsome Leftist Andree Blouin, who has volunteered her way into the most intimate Congo affairs (TIME, Aug. 15). Lumumba relies heavily on a Frenchman of Polish extraction named Serge Michel. Michel, until recently an aide to Algerian Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas...
...Player's Repertoire" concerns an old road-acting couple who perform Priandello-like confusions of identity, with Claire Lu Thomas as leading lady. The style of "Limbo," according to Bellin approaches Strindberg's more closely than that of anyone else in contemporary theatre. Its author, Miss McGuire, has conceived what she calls "an ordinary, extra-ordinary, coffee shop...