Word: shun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chinese Nationalists, then (briefly) the Communists, finally General Tu and the Nationalists again. Changchun was getting a little tired of the fortunes of war. On one day last week fell the anniversary of the Communists' withdrawal from Changchun after their short 1946 occupancy. Reported Shanghai's Shun Pao: "It passed silently in a tense atmosphere. The prescheduled celebrations were given...
...chance to do something about their worry that the veteran is turning Harvard into an academic ivory tower. The same veteran who finds his GI bankroll too slender to allow dinners in Boston would be likely to take a social turn of mind if his House didn't shun any extension of its facilities to include women more frequently. Here the question of coeducation rears its ugly head. But at Radcliffe girls are allowed to have guests for dinner every evening, and that institution has yet to be accused of coeducational leanings...
...Many of their members combat the AYD where it hurts most: in the large AVC and Interracial Association units which are objects of infiltration. They know, however, that what they are really coming to grips with is an entering wedge for controlled extracurricular student life; and while they duly shun the AYD, they realize that suppression will only force it underground...
...took the mid-Pacific island of Ponape from the Japanese, it fell heir to an unsolved mystery. On a reef off the east coast of the dot-on-the-map island are a great stone fortress and 50 artificial islets. Ponape natives call it Nanmatol, but they shun it superstitiously and have only the flimsiest traditions to explain why people built...
Northern Eden? Nahanni is Indian for "people over there, far away." The Indians shun the place for its mammoth grizzlies and the evil spirits wailing in its deep canyons. Of the hunters and prospectors who have gone in, 13 have not returned. Around them most of the tall tales have sprung...