Word: mandarin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Japan, the Glee Club moved on to Korea, Formosa, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Thailand. In Hong Kong, the group surprised their audience by singing the famous Chinese folk song "Galloping Up The Hilltop" in Mandarin. The program consisted mainly of church music...
...know Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Urdu, Mandarin, Arabic? If so, could you merely understand a foreigner speaking the language, or read a newspaper, give a short talk about the U.S., write a letter? Can you drive a tractor, run a bulldozer, handle surveyor's tools, operate a power boat, use radio equipment? Are you on any special diets? Do you suffer from allergies? How well do you really know the country in which you would like to serve...
...Chinese-Mandarin 460 million
...Kong is remarkable for youth. When it was founded in 1841, Chicago was already a city, and New Orleans had been an important seaport for more than a century. Hong Kong's difficult birth resulted from a clash of wills between Britain's eager merchants and the mandarin aloofness of the Manchu court. The West desperately wanted the tea and silk of China; China wanted chiefly to be left alone...
...Swollen Mandarin. Cronin promises to relate, in future installments of People, the "even more trying times that were still ahead." But some Britons had already seen enough. Cassandra, the terrible-tempered columnist of the London Daily Mirror, dubbed Cronin "this swollen mandarin of backstairs protocol," and railed against his "miserable etiquette, his tawdry patronage and his backbiting desire to make money at the expense of his late employers." British butlerdom reeled with shock. Samuel Bretson, head of the nation's only school for butlers, was in despair at Cronin's repeating "tittle-tattle-and about the royals...