Word: mah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dozen Soviet groups belt out numbers in a Berlitz of languages, including English, Italian and French. As midnight slips by, the gray-uniformed police stationed by the amplifiers glower, but the beat goes on. Suddenly a combo swings into an Elvis Presley classic, and the fans roar along, "Mah bluh svade shoos...
...Answer: mah-jongg...
...wars with a record of glory and rose to membership in the Standing Committee by 1956. With the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, he was officially named the "No. 2 capitalist reader" in the party, after Liu Shaoqi. Accused of arrogance, gluttony and dissolute habits (addiction to bridge and mah-jongg), he was purged and paraded through the streets of Peking wearing a dunce cap. He was rusticated several times-to stoop labor in Jiangxi, later to serve meals at the mess of a party training camp outside Peking. But he bears larger scars of memory. During the Great Terror...
...operation failed when a Mahé airport customs inspector found a weapon hidden in a Froth-Blower's luggage. A gunfight broke out at the airport, in which one mercenary was killed and several oth ers wounded. Desperate to escape, the raiders fought their way to the control tower, guided an incoming Air India 707 to a landing and commandeered the plane. They forced the Air India pilot to fly them 2,500 miles across the Indian Ocean to Durban...
...mercenaries who made it back to South Africa were doubly lucky. Officials in Seychelles, a nation of 92 islands 1,000 miles off the East African coast, say that there were 52 raiders in all. Some had apparently arrived in Mahé", the main island, earlier and were lying low in hotels when the main body of mercenaries landed, posing as rugby players. The coup was then triggered prematurely when a mercenary's gun was discovered. Since the ensuing airport Shootout, at least 500 visiting tourists have been confined to the islands' luxury hotels. Five mercenaries have been...