Word: ning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Student Li Ping-ning: "America contaminated my moral thinking with such books as How to Win Friends and Influence People and Short Cut to Success...
...four days the invaders reached Ning-ching, where a Tibetan border regiment defected in what appears to have been the commissars' first tactical triumph. On Oct. 19 the combat troops "annihilated" 4,000 Tibetans at Chamdo, a citadel 400 miles east of Lhasa, Tibet's capital. From Chamdo on, they had no real opposition except from the rugged terrain and rarified air on the "roof of the world." By week's end the One-Eyed Dragon was reported five days' march from the Tibetan capital...
...neurotic, but there was in him also both the strength of will and the self-discipline which made it possible for him to spend hours hunting down details for his book, revising parts -; of it over & over again, planning its total structure with the care of a general plan ning a battle. Proust said, "Life may bring solation." A man who disappointments, but knew in this work and is con could act upon it may not have needed sickness to increase his power of analysis ; he could be a great writer, not because he remained a child, but because...