Word: rice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rice & Faith. Mao Tse-tung was born (1893) in Shao Shan, Hunan Province, where for years his world was the rice paddy, the village school, and his father's cane. Old Mao was a fanner, prosperous enough to hire a laborer. Unlike many another farm lad who later followed him, and died for the rice and the faith he offered, young Mao never knew hunger. Nor did he know abundance. Once every month, old Mao would give his farmhand eggs with his rice, but no meat. Recalls Mao: "To me, he gave neither eggs nor meat...
...Grasp the Future. Mao began to develop a social conscience. Once there was a famine in the Shao Shan district and the poor, asking help from the rich farmers, started a movement called "Eat Rice Without Charge." This seemed reasonable to Mao, but not to his father who, like other farmers, kept selling rice to cities despite the local famine. Young Mao read pamphlets about the Western powers that were dismembering China. He read books that proclaimed China's need to modernize herself. He began to cut classes and teach himself from books. The principal reprimanded...
...small, shabby auditorium of Tokyo's Scholars' Building, 210 of Japan's best scientists relaxed last week with tall bottles of beer and box lunches of rice balls, cold fish and pickles. Like most Japanese, they wore cracked shoes and frayed trousers, but they had good reason to feel proud of themselves. This was Japan's brand-new Science Council, democratically elected by 33,000 of Japan's recognized scientists...
...matter what the modernists may think, Italy's women rice pickers are not 'rectangular objects with wooden thighs and faces like rotten cantaloupes.'" So ran an editorial in the Italian Communist magazine, Rinascita, which has caught the current Kremlin fever for art with a rosy-Red message (TIME, March 8). Last week, in a letter to Rinascita, 14 ill-indoctrinated party painters struck back. Among them was 37-year-old Renato Guttuso-one of the best Italian artists living. Art, said their letter, should concern itself with "the struggles of the working class [but] to these struggles...
...advocates of peace now with the Reds was broad-shouldered, bony-faced General Pai Chung-hsi, formerly China's Defense Minister and now Commander in Central China. He commands four Nationalist armies in the Hankow area, crucial for its position athwart the flow of food (from the Hunan rice bowl) and of munitions (from Szechwan arsenals...