Word: shin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...photo features, for example, contain such interesting items as: "After five revolutions the transport service in the Fuhsen mining area has shown marked improvement. Here we see the loading of coal in the Haichu open-cut mine." Another caption: "The nationally renowned 'Flying-Pigeon' Bicycle." And again: "Chiang Yen-shin, who has been promoted from a foundry worker to an engineer, has fulfilled his production target for 69 months running while ensuring excellent quality." (Old Chiang is really smiling.) Finally, what can surpass in interest value the feature article, "The Secret of the Degeneration of Potatoes...
...Shin referring to the new Russian ambassador to the U.S., Anatoly Dobrynin, as a "Soviet-style New Frontiersman" [Jan. 5], you should have used the singular not the plural in the Russian translation. Instead of Liudi novykh granits, it should have been chelovek novykh granits. Liudi means men; chelovek: a man. You need a Russian language expert...
...came when over-lapping third-period penalties gave the Indians a two-man advantage on the Crimson for almost a minute. The Big Green put a fresh team on the ice and mounted a convincing attack for about 20 seconds, until a Dartmouth shot bounced off Dave Johnston's shin pad into center ice. Before the Indians could overhaul him, Johnston raced into the Dartmouth zone and fired a shot that missed by inches...
...Eternal Light, the Flames of the Burning Bush, and the twelve tribes of Israel. In the center is the Tree of Life crowned by the seven branches of the Light of God. The Jewish symbol of the palm becomes a kind of ladder made up of the Hebrew character "shin," the first letter in one of the words for God. The third panel contains the Star of David and a sun surrounded by seven golden balls representing the seven days of Creation. Finally, in slightly distorted Hebrew letters that run along the bottom, is the holy declaration of the Shema...
...deficiency disease (lack of vitamin B1), commonest among Orientals, who eat polished rice, and Western alcoholics, who eat next to nothing. The Japanese have described an acute form of the disease, which kills suddenly by causing the heart to collapse; they call it shoshin (from sho, acute damage, and shin, heart). Now West meets East as two Detroit doctors report in the New England Journal of Medicine that shoshin beriberi may kill U.S. alcoholics...