Word: mandarinize
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...skull, to which the years of adversity and self-discipline have given a sculptural distinction. It might be the head and face of a monk. He waves his visitor to a sofa, then takes a straight chair beside him. Barking his comments at the interpreter in his staccato, rough Mandarin, he fixes his dark eyes on his visitor, brightening with interest at a comment on Indo-China. turning grave as he states his unshakable determination to return to the mainland. Tea is served, and at exactly 6 o'clock an indescribable look comes over the President's face...
...first top-level Communist purge. The terms of the denunciation closely followed the Russian pattern, but if the Chinese leaders had intended to follow up expulsion with a Stalinist-type public confession of guilt by Kao, they were defeated by an old Chinese custom. Like many a great imperial mandarin before him, Kao took the proverbial way out of his situation: he committed suicide. Thus Kao Kang, said the communique, showing that the Chinese Communists fully understood his protest, "expressed his ultimate betrayal of the party...
MAUDE S. SUMACHER Mandarin...
...week, 14 radio stations in Japan and Korea beamed the offer northward in Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese and Russian...
...cold weather, cocooned in several layers of shawls and scarves, and wrapped in a huge old overcoat, she sallies forth. Her hands nest mandarin-style in the large sleeves. Each day's walk ends the same way-with a visit to her "last sweetheart," an 80-year-old carpenter of Lakeville. "I spend my relaxation ration with him. We understand each other -we are both craftsmen: he loves his carpentry as I love my music. Our conversation is very condensed." With a birdlike flutter of her thin-boned hands, Landowska adds: "But his niece -she is too bourgeoise...