Word: mu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Enslaved. Author Hobart in her novel tells how two men slip ashore on the China coast to be guided by the anti-Communist underground into Shanghai. One is David Conway, Chinese-born U.S. businessman doggedly intent on rescuing a young American trapped by the Communists. The other is Mu San, whose father, a wealthy Hong Kong refugee, sent him to help Conway's desperate mission...
Last week, after a flying trip to Yucatan, Agriculture Minister Gilberto Flores Muñoz said bluntly: "In my opinion the so-called Gran Ejido should be abolished." He could not have astonished his countrymen more if he had run naked across the Zocalo in Mexico City. Other public figures, wondering if Flores' statement could possibly have the approval of President Ruiz Cortines, waited for the Jovian thunderbolts to fly from the iron-faced Cardenas, still, even in retirement, the country's most powerful political figure...
...week's end. Pianist Novaë's was back in Town Hall, where her fans were so mu sic hungry that extra chairs had to be put on the stage for the audience. Dressed in regal black, Pianist Novaë's floated her music from the first pearly notes of a Bach-Siloti Prelude, gathered excitement with Beethoven's "Waldstein" and steeped Schumann's Kinderscenen and three Chopin pieces in reflective romanticism. She wound up with three works by her prolific countryman, Villa-Lobos. When the stormy applause finally abated, Guiomar Nova...
...would not be optimistic about the chances of business success in store for a bra factory out there [TIME, Aug. 23]. In the first place, the Exquisite Form Brassiere Co. will have to provide many unusual and asymmetrical patterns for the unfortunate natives who "have been deformed by mu-mu* Furthermore, unless styles and mores have changed greatly there since 1943, the demand for the output of the brassiere company will be limited indeed, and tourists are few in numbers...
...thriving magazine-subscription service, wrote a column for the student paper Dynamo, and served as its poetry editor. He played a good game of chess, became his fraternity's chaplain, was a member of the Student Christian Association and the social-science honorary society, Pi Gamma Mu. Meanwhile, he majored in history and literature ("The record of humanity is in both"), and in his spare time turned out two volumes of poetry. But what amazed his professors most was his academic record...