Word: shan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mostly to private homes. The day before last week's election, officials unexpectedly lifted martial law, which had been in effect since September 1988, in parts of the country, but the campaign of intimidation continued. Security officers reportedly conducted random searches of houses, and in the eastern state of Shan reports spread of men being dragooned into the army to carry munitions into rebel-occupied areas...
...defend, it seemed hard to believe war was really at hand. Virginia Woolf's husband Leonard recalled that he was planting irises under an apple tree. "Suddenly I heard Virginia's voice calling to me from the sitting-room window: 'Hitler is making a speech.' I shouted back: 'I shan't come. I'm planting iris, and they will be flowering long after he is dead...
...HOLLYWOOD HUSBANDS, Collins 5 8 FLIGHT OF THE INTRUDER, Coonts 7 9 THE PANIC OF '89, Erdman -- 10 SHAN, Van Lustbader -- NONFICTION 1 FATHERHOOD, Cosby 1 2 A SEASON ON THE BRINK, Feinstein 6 3 THE ROTATION DIET, Katahn 3 4 MCMAHON!, McMahon 2 5 MEN WHO HATE WOMEN...
...provides interpreters for 80 different languages from Albanian and Amharic to Turkish and Tongan. One judge estimates that nearly half his cases require an interpreter. Sometimes the results are freakish. A police officer testified that he had read a Chinese suspect his Miranda rights in Chinese, in the Tai- shan dialect. The suspect only understood Cantonese. The judge thereupon ruled out his confession...
...Liang Shan stands as a salient example of the gap between the Chinese and the American man Like a Maoist Job, he suffers repeated indignities and hardships without losing faith. He is not a Western man with democratic ideals on whom communism has been forced Rather, he has a selfless devotion to the state personified by Mao. In this unusually impartial view of life in modern China, Liang Heng successfully expresses the strength of the communist faith as it conflicts with filial loyalty, romance love and urge for a better like. Unlike foreign visitors or disillusioned exiles, Liang Heng...