Word: ning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There's an Oh, such a zeal for spooning ru'ning the mind...
...from the ashes of World War I. A new Rapallo-Locarno policy would again enable Germany to play the two power blocs off against each other, and reap rewards from both. Adenauer was "too dogmatic" and he was also too dependent on the U.S., which Herr Professor Brüning said gloomily, is headed for an economic slump.* Then up stood old Hans Luther, another pre-Hitler Chancellor (1925-26) and one-time Ambassador to the U.S. He agreed with Brüning. Through an aroma of fragrant cigars, West Germany's bankers and businessmen nodded slowly...
...regrettable," Der Alte cried, "that men of such excellent reputation are making remarks which might be harmful." He asserted that the Russians had deliberately exaggerated Germany's potential market in the U.S.S.R. He hit Brüning's "seesaw policy" as unsuitable, and as tending to create "distrust in Germany's reliability." Bruning hastily said that he had not meant his remarks to be publicized...
Expert Help. Most revealing of the tributes was a speech by China's No. 2 labor boss, Lui Ning-i, listing some-doubtless not all-of the Chinese projects on which Russian experts have been working: the Peking-Hankow, Canton-Hankow, Chengtu-Chungking and Tienshui-Lanchow railways; the Huai River conservation plan (employing some 5,000,000 workers, many of them slave laborers); the Chinkiang water detention basin, the new Tangku harbor in Tientsin. According to best estimates, there are 60,000 Russians "helping out" in China...
White flag in hand, a 28-year-old Chinese officer crossed into the allied lines one day last week, just bursting with talk. Lieutenant Fan Wei-ning cheerfully gave out vital facts on the officers and men in his division-their ages, their equipment, their battle plans. Then he asked for a map of the village where his division was based, and eagerly pinpointed supply dumps, command posts and gun positions...