Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took a relatively bold step last week. On the smoking-and-cancer question, it advanced from its guarded 1954 position ("some evidence of a statistical association"), last week announced: "There is an increasing and consistent body of evidence that excessive cigarette smoking is one of the causative factors in lung cancer . . . and there is a direct relationship between the incidence of lung cancer and the amount smoked...
Nationalist days was the tough, tight-fisted war lord of Yunnan province, took a crack at the most sacrosanct foreign idol of all. Said General Lung, now a vice chairman of Red China's National Defense Council: "It is totally unfair for the People's Republic of China to pay all the expenses of the Korean War. The U.S. has given up her claims for loans she granted to her allies during the first and second world wars, yet the Soviet Union insists that China must pay interest on Soviet loans." He would like to know, Lung added...
...their heads to the party scythe. He had to wait awhile; it was weeks after Mao's "rectification" campaign began before China's timid intellectuals found the courage to raise their voices. For his attack on Mao, Editor Chu An Ping was suspended from his party. General Lung's co-workers publicly rebuked him for "slandering the Soviet Union with malice." Critics could expect vigorous counter-criticism, but as yet there was-no evidence that they would suffer worse. The basic fact about their criticism is that the West's knowledge of it comes solely from...
...bosses have chosen to broadcast the attacks of their critics: to siphon off the kind of pent-up popular frustration which led to the Hungarian explosion; to put the fear of the counterrevolution into the lower levels of their own bureaucracy; even, in the case of General Lung's anti-Russian blast, to make a point which the government agrees with but cannot officially accept. But underscoring them all is one fact, ominous to Communists everywhere: Mao noted that in Hungary "the party simply disappeared in a matter of a few days," because it had no popular roots...
Died. Kingoro Hashimoto, 67, onetime Japanese Imperial Army Colonel, who was implicated in the abortive 1936 "February Revolt," advocate of war against China and the West, imprisoned in 1948 as a "Class A" war criminal (released in 1955) of lung cancer; in Tokyo. Stocky, dynamic Hashimoto, whose narrow military training, ignorance of the outside world and hatred of foreigners led him to believe in an easy, speedy victory over Russia, Britain and the U.S., organized the superpatriotic Japan Youth Party in 1936, and with it as political leverage, instigated the sinking of the U.S.S. Panay (1937) with no effective discipline...