Word: shengli
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...half-hour or so. "These Chinese," marveled Japan's former World Champion Ichiro Ogimura, "play basketball and volleyball and do special exercises. They practice gymnastics to develop agility, lift weights to build up certain muscles." They also keyed themselves to fever pitch emotionally. China's Hsu Yin-sheng explained that his forehand was so powerful because he looked on a Ping-Pong ball "as though it were the head of Chiang Kai-shek...
...eager to escape the horrors of the Hindu caste system. The church now has extensively Indianized its services-psalms are sung not in modes but in droning Indian ragas-but survives largely because of its excellent schools. In Hong Kong, the only free diocese of the captive Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui (Holy Catholic Church in China) is a classic missionary model of how to do much with little. Sprightly Bishop Ronald Owen Hall has only 55 priests and 25,000 members, but his schools educate 50,000 Hong Kong Chinese, and other churches admit that his relief and welfare...
...than the whole Navy, and your promotion of him to navy captain he would have spurned. Likewise would he have spurned the use of his great and good name for such a cause as Leader Welch's. On his headstone near Hsuchow, the Chinese wrote his epitaph: "Sha sheng ch'eng jen," which can be translated "He died for humanity," or "He died for righteousness." Leader Welch is doing dishonor to the name of my old friend, who fought for righteousness but not righteousness without humanity...
...There were persistent reports from Eastern Europe that satellite countries had shown themselves reluctant at the meeting to follow Khrushchev's example and announce a cut in their armed forces. And from Peking came words from a speech delivered at the Moscow meeting by Chinese Observer Kang Sheng that was not mentioned at all, let alone published in Russia. At an earlier gathering of the clan in May 1958 it was announced that the sessions "in which an observer from the Chinese People's Republic also took part confirmed the unanimity of the governments represented." With good reason...
During a rehearsal of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London, Britain's trigger-tempered maestro, Sir Thomas Beecham, an irascible 77, soothed himself by trying to make music on a sheng, an old wind that few modern Chinese blow good. The cluster of fluty pipes had been presented to Beecham, himself no mean player of the piano and trombone, by touring orchestra members of Red China's Variety Theater...