Word: millets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WANG is about 25 years old, with less than five years of schooling behind him. Back home in Manchuria he was a farmer, and all he wants today is to go back to the fields where he left his wife and baby daughter to tend the millet crop. He volunteered for the army in February 1950-to spare his family social disgrace in his village-but he never took to army life. He discussed his dislike of fighting with other soldiers who agreed, but he had to be careful not to talk to the wrong soldiers, i.e., dedicated members...
...another warehouse a steady stream of Korean women threaded their way through huge stacks of flour, rice and millet, emerged with 50 to 100-lb. sacks strapped to their backs or carefully balanced on their heads. There would be some later disappointment. Some of the women had taken their sacks from the wrong part of the warehouse and were heading jubilantly home to the kitchen loaded down with fertilizer...
Kalimpong's main social center is the Himalayan Hotel, operated by the Mac-Donalds, a jovial Scottish-Tibetan family, who organize Saturday night parties liberally spiced with unusual conversation and hot millet beer. On one recent occasion, in the dining room, a Buddhist Englishwoman thought that she recognized another woman guest. "I beg your pardon," she said, "but haven't we met in a previous incarnation?" "Yes," was the reply, "I believe we have. I was Joan of Arc and you were my brother." The Englishwoman drew herself up haughtily. 'Certainly not," she snapped, "I have never...
...Yardlings got off to a fast start in the first match, when Steve White (H) defeated John Jeffries 18-6, 15-10, 15-10. Then Dave Millet (M) defeated Paul Garrigue 11-15, 18-13, 15-13, 15-9. John Seldon (M) defeated John Rauk 15-8, 7-15, 15-12, 16-15. The '54 squad still had a chance when Matt Reynolds (H) defeated Ed Fay 16-15, 15-10, 15-8. But, in the last set, Dave Jeffries (M) defeated Ham Forster 11-15, 15-12, 15-9, 9-15, 15-10, to win the match...