Word: niu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Li & Miss Liu. Loudspeaker trucks blared through the streets of Nanking and other large cities. Walls were pasted with purple and yellow posters proclaiming the virtues of candidates; across one a skeptic had scrawled "tsui niu" (bull-thrower). "Ward and block bosses," commented Nanking's Hsin Min Pao, "go to so many feasts they have stomachaches every day." But this time the Kuomintang made good its promise that seats guaranteed to minor parties should indeed go to minor parties. To teach party discipline on other matters, Kuomintang leaders cracked the whip...
...peasant children know what they would do if they had the money: "Mai niu jou!-buy beef!" In a land where 320,000,000 have never heard a radio, read a newspaper, or seen a movie, the plans of the plain people remain what they were: to own land or to own a business. The Chinese officials are working on a master plan of reconstruction in which individual careers will interlock with a nourishing, trading, building, postwar career for the nation. They are talking of the roads that must be built, of the 100,000 miles of railroads New China...
...Joaquin Niu-Culmoll, pianist, will give a recital high-lighting the past five centurion of Spanish music, at Paine, Hall on Friday, January 12, at 8.30 o'clock. The recital will be open to the public with out charge...