Word: ricksha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Disciple of Lu Pan (god of carpenters), The Old Man of the Apricot Orchard; in Peking. Living with 30 relatives (he supported about 50) in a rambling house, Ch'ih painted chicks, crickets, shrimp and crabs, occasionally a landscape ("Only the rich have known landscapes, but every ricksha boy knows a shrimp or a crab") in the Sung Dynasty tradition...
...return, the left-wingers got the chairmanship of the new united party for their leader, Mosaburo Suzuki, a onetime ricksha boy, a poet who writes under the name of Mojin (growing person), a pacifist who did 2½ years' time in imperial jails during World War II, a longtime inhabitant of the marshy Marxist terrain between Socialism and Communism. For their part, the right-wingers installed as party secretary general their boss, Inejiro Asanuma, a big-chested, big-voiced union man who has a background of antiCommunism. He is a stronger, more forceful type than Party Chairman Suzuki...
...large handkerchief. Ichiro Hatoyama sat confidently in the Diet last week, waiting to be elected Japan's new Premier and watching the members drop their votes in a black-lacquered box. All the conservative parties had agreed to support Hatoyama. and his only opponent was Mosaburo Suzuki, onetime ricksha boy who has become leader of the Diet's left-wing Socialists. The vote for Ichiro Hatoyama: 254-160. Climbing into his wheelchair, Hatoyama rolled around the chamber on a triumphal tour, brandishing a glass of beer (strictly a photographer's prop, since Hatoyama, on doctor...
...know most about the incident," said Nehru afterwards, "because I was standing in an open car and therefore commanded a good view. At a turning, a bicycle ricksha was suddenly pushed at the car. I saw the man who pushed the ricksha coming towards the car. I was annoyed at his pushing in this manner, and thought that he probably wanted to hand me a petition . . . The man . . . proceeded on to the running board...
...barely stopped smiling at the crowd and pressing his palms together in the traditional Hindu greeting. "You don't want to take risks?" he told his agitated followers. "Then don't take them." Nehru thought that the would-be assassin, a 33-year-old Hindu ricksha boy called Babu Rao Laxman Kohale, was simply "a cranky person...