Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Feeling the need to share his new knowledge with others, he inserted advertisements in newspapers inviting correspondence with fellow idealists. Four answered. Three of them later turned out to be "reactionaries." The fourth, a skinny youth called Li Lisan ("who listened to everything I had to say and then went away") was soon to become Mao's rival for the leadership of Chinese Communism...
Plain Chinese, who have fled Communist areas by the millions, have observed the "new democracy" at work in every village the Communists have taken. The Chinese say that the Reds have a "three-head policy." The first stage is the "nod head," when they are polite to the people and want to make friends. The second stage is the "shake head," when they begin to refuse the people's requests. The third stage comes when they are in full control; it is called the "chop head...
...University of Washington had taken its stand: last week, it was taking the consequences. As might have been expected, the firing of three professors-two for being Communists and one for refusing to say under investigation (TIME, Jan. 31)-had raised a racket. So far, most of the howls were coming from the protesters...
...have something," he said, "that I regret very much having to say . . . Tonight's issue will be our last one. We have made every effort to raise new capital, and get this paper refinanced, and it is just not possible." When Crum jumped down, rumpled, bespectacled Editor Joseph Barnes, flushed and close to tears, gritted out his thanks to the staff...
...Neue Zeitung was speaking in the same guttural nationalist accents that General Lucius D. Clay has been inveighing against recently. Said the U.S.-licensed Frankfurter Rundschau: "Certain [Germans] smile when they read Die Neue Zeitung, as they can find there everything they think and do not dare to say . . . Whether they read the column called 'Observer' or the letterbox 'The Free Word' they will always find a sarcastic criticism of the American occupation or the Anglo-American occupation policy...