Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more hilarious examples of the current Mao-knows-best school of Chinese journalism. The Moscow editors reprinted the article from a Chinese paper without comment, presumably because its title fully signaled its inanity: "Let Us Speak of the Philosophic Questions of Selling Watermelons in Big Cities." The author, Shanghai Fruit Store Manager Chou Hsin-li, explained how he had solved the problem of selling his melons before they rotted by referring to the writings of Mao Tse-tung for guidance...
...balancing the twin ideals of reasonably well-rounded Houses and reasonably satisfied students. The old method of assignment sent the majority of freshmen where they wanted to go, but each Class showed a disturbing tendency to crowd into a few popular Houses. The less glamorous Houses virtually had to shanghai their share of people...
...born in Shanghai of missionary parents. As a boy I became interested in heaven as depicted in Revelations. I saw nothing jolly in harping and singing praises forever and ever. But I knew God as my friend and was sure He would provide something better and funnier for small folks to do-like sliding down waterfalls in the River of Life or letting my tree-climbing sister climb the Tree of Life. Now I am 77. My hope each evening is that I may have the bliss of falling forever into a deep, dreamless sleep. To me there...
...school in September 1956. During his first year of law courses, White studied Hegel, Marx and Engels, later boned up on Leninist ideology, but was allowed to skip studies on Mao Tse-tung. It was at Peoples U. that White met and married Hsieh Ping, a classmate from Shanghai...
...Peking factory even altered its assembly line to produce Chinese lantern slides branding the U.S. as the "aggressor." And word filtered out that rail traffic between Peking, Shanghai and Canton had been disrupted-perhaps due to troop or supply movements to the Southeast Asian border...