Word: ming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is the real showdown," Australians said. "Either Ming will break the Reds or the Reds will break Ming...
...Ming"-antipodean lingo for Prime Minister Robert Menzies-had made an election promise last fall to outlaw the Communist Party. The defiant Reds had called quickie strikes on the Melbourne and Brisbane waterfronts, tied up shipments of wool and meat abroad. A fortnight ago Ming's government moved toward a showdown by invoking the Emergency Crimes Act (first passed in 1914 against wartime sabotage), under which strike leaders could be jailed. "We will deal with Communists here once & for all," warned the Prime Minister. To waterfront strikers went an ultimatum: either back to work, or prison for union officials...
...which the 89-year-old Renaissance master was working when he died. The 72-year-old Countess Ottavia Sanseverino has always let the tourists in, interrupting her meals and muddying her gleaming marble floors, even though one gaping art lover backed into one of her pieces of priceless Ming pottery and smashed it to bits...
Class president Joan Bresnahan '51 will also announce the adoption of a new class foster child, a Polish refugee now in England. Previously the juniors provided for the food and clothing of Ching Ming, a Chinese orphan, who is now in a secondary school...