Word: oriental
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...locale is that intrigue-ridden region that the Orient Express never quite reached-the Orient. As he is so fond of doing, British Author Ambler begins with a fragile seed of evil: a cache of arms established in Malaya by Communist terrorists after World War II. The terrorists are killed in an ambush, and the arms dump is lost. But a thoughtful Indian plantation clerk deduces that it must exist, and to satisfy his curiosity begins to search for it. Months later the clerk finds the weapons, still unrusted, and he feels that it would be a pity to turn...
...plastic bottle-cap salesman just home from the Orient was telling an odd tale in Manhattan last week. He had been having an expense-account special (bird's-nest soup, aromatic chicken) at Mang Wing-tei's in Hong Kong, when in came "this big, storklike American wearing a black and blue mandarin's costume. He said he was celebrating the Year of the Rat. Irving Hoffman was his name...
...train continued creeping forward for what seemed an age. The change was complete. Three miles back, every person had been Western and every sign had been in Russian. Now everyone was Oriental and there was not a sign in any language but Chinese. We had entered the Orient as one jumps off a dock into...
...paper opposed Japan's growing sphere of influence so vehemently that he was forced to leave Shanghai. Then the Japa nese took over the city. But American International found new fields to conquer in Latin America, eventually built a larger business there than it ever had in the Orient...
...another English teacher who was ousted from his position because he took matters into his own hands (I belted a couple of students who didn't know the difference between teacher and student because the almighty administration didn't trouble to orient them on this nice point), I shout hurrah! hurrah! migawd, hurrah! for James Worley [Dec. 7]. Probably Worley would disagree with me on the subject of physical restraint in the schools, but I want him to know that I agree with him 100% on the subject of teachers' paper work, especially in the euphemistically entitled...