Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more obscure. First, they say, it makes no sense to leave friendly troops idle when they might relieve us of some of the Korean burden. Yet, when warned that their brand of sense might force the United States into a general war, these Republicans seem to assume that Mao would no more retaliate on a large scale than cannonade a flea colony. A contradiction lurks here, though the vagaries which often pass for arguments in the GOP, especially on the subject of China, obscure...
...grasshoppers as a diabolical weapon in germ warfare against the "People's Republic," I thought the limit of human credulity had been reached (Remember? The village kids picked up the plague-bearing insects with chopsticks!) At least Mr. Willcox clears up one mystery, i.e., why grasshoppers ? Of course! Mao had killed the flies. Might the undersigned . . . ask why Mao did not kill the grasshoppers too? Also just how did Mao put an end to centuries of Chinese floods. With chopsticks, again? Come now, Willcox...
...admit that Mao Tse-tung has indeed succeeded in eliminating inflation, and even famine, if he has already liquidated enough millions of people to achieve that. But floods! Does the dreaded Chairman Mao have the magical power to alter, mind you in three years, the course of the Hwang-ho, the Yangtze, and various other rivers which have been the sole cause of this natural disaster...
...Chiang's ambassador in Washington, he left his post because of a tiff with the wartime Chungking regime. In 1947 he said: "Liberal is a terrible term these days, so you'd better just call me an independent." He wrote a letter to "Dear Mr. Mao" urging the Red leader to disband the Red army if and when the Communists joined the government. Now, five years later, the mainland Reds spewed out a poisonous torrent of calumny against him, and Chinese neutralists in Hong Kong and Singapore, who sigh for a nonexistent third force, sulked because...
...deposition of Senator McCarran's where the law-maker admitted to accepting favors from hostelries on a scale not seen since several bureaucrats were heaped with aggrieved indignation for doing precisely the same thing a few years past. Chirrups from Formosa, concerning the future speedy collapse of Mao's regime under the blows of Chiang's battalions, are another instance...