Word: ne
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trying to salvage Peking's diplomatic drive elsewhere in Southeast Asia, Vice Premier Teng took off for a six-day visit to Burma, a country vital to China's security. Dwarfed by his entourage of 70 officials, the diminutive (5 ft.) Teng told Burmese President Ne Win that "China and Burma are linked by common borders, share common rivers and mountains and have been friendly since ancient times." Indeed, Burma is a model neighbor, resisting Soviet influence at home, while carrying on delicate good-will talks with ten neighboring states, with Peking's enthusiastic approval. As Teng...
Saint Laurent's new diaphanous chiffon dresses, often edged in ruffles, left no doubt about the feminine silhouette within. "They are much more feminine and easy to wear than the wide, stiff taffeta gowns of the earlier collections," proclaimed Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, of his $2,000-to-$7,500 designs...
...centuries, some of the very best jade-a mineral called jadeite-has come from Kachin state in northern Burma. Officially, Burmese President Ne Win's socialist government controls the mining and export of jade; in fact, much of the trade is operated by chieftains of eastern Burma's fiercely independent Shan state, Chinese warlords left over from Kuomintang forces that fled south from China in the late 1940s and various tribesmen in southern Burma who have never acknowledged the rule of Rangoon. All these groups long depended for most of their cash income not on jade...
Thie irresistible ne'er do' well, hustling every deal he can get his fingers into, compensates for his unmarketable aspects with a cosmetic personality. When his father dies several years ago he did not go to his funeral because it would have interrupted his training for a contest that would be held two months later. Perhaps he was hostile toward his policeman father who never came to terms with his son's weightlifting fetish. But there's something more, I fear, that was wrong there...
...unadorned walls of the block. The mere sights and sounds of the prison would be sufficient to inject a generous dose of raw terror into even the most jaded newcomers. The foregoing, needless to say, has only served as a fitting warm-up for the assorted misfits and ne'er-do-wells who populate the inside world of those paying back the proverbial debt to society...