Word: squashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down with Squash. In this task, Mao was joined by Chu Teh, now the second biggest star of Chinese Communism. A Yunnan officer and police commissioner, Chu Teh lived in a palatial home, smoked opium and kept several concubines. In 1922, to the indignation of all his friends, he sent his harem packing, broke himself of the opium habit. He went to Europe, studied in Moscow at the Eastern Toilers' Institute. In 1931, he was made commander in chief of the Chinese Red army, while Mao became political commissar. Chinese peasant legends, gleefully fostered by Communists, attribute superhuman powers...
...looked after party discipline. In one year, he executed 4,300 politically unreliable comrades. Meanwhile, conditions on Chingkan Shan were becoming uncomfortable. Food was scarce and the Red army was forced for months to live on squash. The soldiers adopted a slogan: "Down with capitalism and squash-eating!" Chiang Kaishek, by then China's dominant figure, sent his armies against the southern Soviet "republics" and all but finished them in a series of "extermination campaigns." Once, when Mao went to the front to assume personal command, he exclaimed: "Aiya, how daring these bullets are! Don't they know...
When anyone asks Coach Corry Wynn about his freshman squash team, Wynn's face brightens up like a picture window after a can of Glass Wax. The reason is quite clear...
Besides playing in regular intercollegiate competition, the 22-year-old sophomore is now meeting some of the state's top squash players in the Metropolitan League. Henry's record here puts him among the first ten "A" players...
Adam played the best squash of his career last February when he provided a story-book climax for the varsity's Princeton match with a tremendous last-minute drive that tripped the Tigers best, Babe Pearson, and gave the Crimson a 5 to 4 victory...