Word: mandarinize
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...wrong with bourgeois U.S. They take to hanging out in his respectable apartment and quoting his unquotable bromides in their modish cold-water flats. Garvey beats the avant-gardists at their own game. He loses a little finger slamming a car door and replaces the member with a mandarin's jeweled nail guard...
...biggest overseas industrial exhibition that Red China has yet attempted, the entrance to Tokyo's International Trade Fair Hall was transformed into a five-story reproduction of a Mandarin palace. A pair of ferocious papier-mache lions guarded the doors. On opening day firecrackers sputtered, a red and gold dragon writhed in the streets and clouds of confetti burst over the eager crowds. Then it rained for a week and the lions began to come apart. By last week the enthusiasm for the fair of many of Tokyo's businessmen, who have been clamoring for free trade with...
...greeted enthusiastically by white-shirted young Vietnamese. Said he: "I promise you that by the end of the year we will have a democratic regime and a national assembly." By way of ensuring this desirable result, the ballot card photographs had been thoughtfully chosen: that of Bao Dai in mandarin robes against a green background. Premier Diem in civilian clothes against a red background. "You might call it coincidental. I suppose," said a government official, "but in Viet Nam red is considered a lucky color and green an unlucky...
...interrogation cell-is always baffled by language difficulties. The two biggest Communist nations expropriated the language of Tolstoy and Confucius, and interpreters are available. But who will interpret the language of Marxism, which presents problems more complex than the conjugation of a Russian verb or the tonal inflections of Mandarin? That many-splendored monolith, world Communism, is, in fact, a monoglot, whatever national form its utterance takes; it aspires to give a new frame for human thought...
...Sunday afternoon, and the band of students who call themselves "The Chinese High School Singsong and Harmonica Corps" were practicing in a second-floor club in one of the busy sections of Singapore. From the bottom of the stairs, a voice called up and asked in friendly Mandarin to speak to Corps Leader Lee Tai Lim. A few seconds later, a shot rang out and 21-year-old Lee fell dead in the street. He had been well known in Singapore as an active anti-Communist student leader. Said the police, as they offered a record reward...