Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thirty-seven years ago, in the Hunan Provincial Library at Changsha, a 19-year-old farm lad for the first time in his narrow life looked at a map of the world. He studied it, as he later recalled, with great interest. Last week, the farm lad was redrawing that map with an iron pen dipped in blood. Mao Tse-tung was adding China to the domain of world Communism...
...Chinese peasant. He frequently sat with his feet propped on the table, and in warm weather he unceremoniously stripped to the waist. Once, in Yenan in the presence of General Lin Piao, president of the Red Academy, he took off his trousers for comfort while studying a military map. He smokes incessantly and tends his own tobacco patch. In 1938, the Party Central Committee gave him a $5 monthly raise so he could buy more cigarettes. Between noisy puffs, he chews melon seeds or peanuts. Until recently, when his doctors made him slow up, he used to wash down...
...Jackson Pollock painting is apt to resemble a child's contour map of the Battle of Gettysburg (see cut). Nevertheless, he is the darling of a highbrow cult which considers him "the most powerful painter in America" (TIME, Dec. 1, 1947). So what was the cautious critic to write about Pollock's latest show in a Manhattan gallery last week? The New York Times's Sam Hunter covered it this...
Prince Charles of Edinburgh would soon be officially on the map: his grandfather okayed plans to give the name "Prince Charles Strait" to a channel between Elephant and Cornwallis Islands, in the Antarctic...
...Tokyo headquarters, the 68-year-old Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers took a seasoned soldier's look at the Red tide now lapping down over his map of China. Last week he sent a 16-page radio report to Washington. Its heading was mild enough: "Strategic Implications of the Developments in China." But to the Joint Chiefs of Staff last week, the report was a stinger. Once again, Douglas MacArthur found himself in a potentially untenable position. And he was calling for help...