Word: pao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suyin is an attractive Eurasian (Chinese and French) physician with a born flair for melodramatizing her life. In Destination Chungking (1942), it was her barely disguised experiences as a young girl whose pleasant existence in Peking was rudely shattered by war. Her husband, Chinese General Tang Pao Huang, was killed, but Elizabeth (her real name) made it to Hong Kong. There she had a passionate and publicly observed affair with British War Correspondent Mark Elliott, and having kissed, she proceeded to tell in A Many-Splendored Thing (TIME. Dec. 8, 1952"). When Elliott was killed in Korea. Han Suyin declared...
...China in 1949. Red leaders continued to wear their "liberation uniform"-dark trousers and jackets usually padded into shapelessness with cotton. Out of both prudence and necessity China's people followed suit, and women's clothes became almost indistinguishable from men's. Those who had chi pao (long gowns), like their slinky, slit-skirted sisters in Hong Kong and Singapore, put them out of sight...
Diplomatic Trip. Pibulsonggram also abolished press censorship. This enabled Bangkok newspapers to report that Pao's police had just made an unprecedented haul of 20 tons of contraband opium, and that government rewards paid out for the tip amounted to $1,000,000. Again, no body was arrested. Questioned at the Premier's next press conference, Police Chief Pao could not satisfactorily explain what had happened to the confiscated opium or to the $1,000,000 reward...
Pibulsonggram moved swiftly, in the new democratic fashion. With a big smile, he summoned Pao and dispatched him in his capacity as deputy finance minister, to Washington to see about a new U.S. loan. The plane was hardly off the ground before the Premier began separating Pao and his relatives from their extra jobs and it had hardly landed in the U.S. before Pibulsonggram made himself interior minister and promised to stop opium smuggling...
...days tension ran high in Bangkok. At one point, all Pao's men and their families lived under 24-hour armed surveillance by the army, but it soon became evident that Pibulsonggram was only restraining, and not destroying, his friend Pao. Quiet returned to Bangkok. So last week, did Police Chief Pao. From the airport he rushed home for a long chat with his latest astrologer...