Word: ming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese Communists used their advanced MIG-17 jets to strafe Nationalist Chinese craft trying to reinforce Quemoy. Said Nationalist Chief of General Staff "Tiger'' Wang Shu-ming, "I don't know how much longer we can practice restraint...
...group adjutant in Toungoo who threatened so many of his men with so many courts-martial that Boyington suspected "he must have been at least one jump ahead of a few himself in his military days." There was Chennault himself, who "thought his face was a piece of Ming-dynasty chinaware he was afraid might break if he were to show emotion of any kind...
Last Angry Man. In Hong Kong, Yu Shui-ming, alias Pee Hai Por ("Leather Shoe Shop"), was asked by a judge to demonstrate how he earned his nickname, pulled off one of his shoes, flung it at the police officer who had arrested him for loitering...
...shop is filled with a conglomeration of exotic glue pots, picture frames, the smell of turpentine, prints from the Ming Dynasty, welded metal sculpture, mobiles, folk pottery, and usually an exhibition of the most abstract of abstracts by one young artist or another. Paul has recently come down to earth with a small shop on the street level devoted entirely to ceramics. His personality can be felt everywhere in a quiet, yet intense sort of way as he arranges things or looks up as someone comes in the door...
Stephen A. Aaron followed with the Ivy Oration, in which he revealed that the setter of the Mem Hall fire was really Cesare D. Balzotti, "agent provocateur for Mr. Vellucci," discovered to be Ming Emperor Sey-Pu, whose name, unscrambled, might be easily recognized...