Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...timorous local committees; schools for two million bookkeepers were started. Evidently there were sweeping changes in the top command: Teng Tsu-hui, China's farm boss, has not been seen or heard from since. By last month the Central Committee was ready to spring the new line. Mao's speech (made public for the first time) provided the new battle cries. Red China's ubiquitous loudspeakers dinned his down-on-the-farm phrases about bound-foot hobblers into a billion ears. Because Mao had said that the great mass of poor farmers were in reality pining...
With these earthy sarcasms, the ex-farmboy who bosses about one-fifth of the world's people came down last July from the Olympian remoteness in which he has been wrapped for seven years. Before him, Mao Tse-tung could see failure...
...Stalin's Steps. One day after the congress adjourned, Mao loosed his 13,-ooo-word blast before party leaders. The industrializing of the country, he said, depends on growing farm surpluses, which can only be produced by larger and more efficient cooperatives. If the future of Chinese Communism is to be saved, said Mao, "we must mount our horses quickly" and charge off to the left along the trail so boldly blazed by the Russians. The Central Committee had decided that no more than a million collectives should be formed by next fall. "That is not enough," snapped Mao...
...Peking, Nenni took tea with Mao Tse-tung, addressed the Communists' Consultative Political Conference ("It is a scandal that this new, vibrant China has not been admitted to the United Nations"), talked mutual trade with Premier Chou Enlai, discussed Roman Catholicism with the self-styled "vicar general of Peking." Concluded Nenni: "Catholic missionaries in China can leave and return as they like," provided, of course, that they do not carry out "counterrevolutionary propaganda...
...customary proletarian mufti, Red China's pudgy Chairman Mao Tse-tung, looking like a reasonably good insurance risk at his age (68), emerged from Peking to make an inspection tour along the Yellow River, where the Communists say they are undertaking monumental flood-control projects...