Word: oriental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atlantic Fleet destroyer force based on Newport, R.I. By last count, about 500 men had the disease-out of 27,500 men on the 110 Newport-based ships, There were no deaths. Laboratory tests showed the virus to be of the mutant Type A first detected in the Orient...
...18th centuries. What makes his sudden rise to fame so surprising is that Tessai's work boldly departs from the polish and finish of Japan's professional, court-painting tradition. Instead, he used a rough, impulsive brushwork that often seems closer to the West than to the Orient...
...last lap of a strenuous 17-nation serenade through Asia, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Eleanor Steber put into Hong Kong, allowed: "You can now call me a primitive donna!" In her travels about the Orient, West Virginia-born Singer Steber, 40, a recent divorceée, had also observed some exotic marriage customs, including the blissful servitude of Oriental wives. Said she: "I now see why American women lose their husbands. The Asians sure know how to hold on to theirs. Marriage in the United States today is a highly unsatisfactory business, and American women are to blame...
...newcomers' defiance of outsiders -particularly of the civic agencies that attempt to orient them-is fostered by their long history of geographic and cultural isolation. School officials told Norma Lee that they had even met "real backwoodsy hillbillies from areas that go in for snake rites, had burned down schoolhouses and horsewhipped the teachers." Most refuse to send their children to school. Even more alarming to authorities, said Reporter Browning, is the parents' "rebellious resistance" to immunization shots and other elementary health measures. Chicago's polio outbreak last year was "centered in Southern white migrant areas." Said...
...with all the ineffable politeness of an old-school Japanese. Who is he? Mr. Moto, of course, back in print after a 15-year absence owing to a slight unpleasantness between the U.S. and Japan. Author Marquand created his serial agent in the 19305 after a trip to the Orient, and it is strange to meet Moto again, now that Marquand is so much better known for his travels through New England and Suburbia...