Word: tagalog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...against Communism-during four hectic days in the Philippines. ''He is not afraid to shake my hand even if my shirt is dirty," cried a shopkeeper whom Nixon met on a whirlwind trip into the countryside. In Manila, where he donned a green-embroidered, white barong tagalog before addressing a huge youth rally, he shook hands with more than 5,000 students...
Romulo was left to the comedians; the record of Quirino's Liberal Party was left to Magsaysay himself. Speaking mostly in Tagalog dialect, heaving with emotion, Magsaysay told of the 1951 murder of Politician Moises Padilla, "whose only crime was to make speeches against the administration." He told how Padilla's legs were broken, his eyes gouged out, and his tongue pierced, before he was killed by five bullets in the back. "I carried his body in my arms," shouted Magsaysay. "It was not the body of Padilla I carried, but the body of the humble people...
Pass the Lapu-Lapu. Ramon Magsaysay, rugged, tall (5 ft. n in.), is a blacksmith's son from Zambales, a province in western Luzon. He has both Chinese and Spanish blood, and calls himself a mixture of Ilokano and Tagalog, which refers to the dialects his parents speak. He is a table-thumping, toe-tromping activist who would rather hip-shoot a gun at bottles tossed into Manila Bay than put away one of Quirino's famed two-hour breakfasts at Malacafian Palace, with pancakes, papaya and fried lapu-lapu (a choice fish). He lacks the usual Filipino...
...called Pag-asa (Tagalog for hope), he toured the islands, dropping in unannounced on one army outpost after another; in regions Pag-asa could not reach, he traveled by car or carabao cart. He gave the soldiers better food, better quarters, promise of advancement. At one post he went out with a patrol to do a little Huk-shooting himself, and handed a battlefield commission to a sergeant who bagged three. At another post he found soldiers sleeping without blankets...
...Columbia University this year will have their choice of three new tongue-twisters. In addition to such old favorites as Syriac (ancient Mesopotamia), Samoyed (Siberia) and Akkadian (ancient Babylon), Columbia is adding Avestan, the language of Zoroaster; Kurdish, spoken by the wandering Kurds of Turkey, Iraq and Iran; and Tagalog, a native language of the Philippines. Total languages now available: 50. ¶ After five years of experimenting, Harvard finally put its General Education "core curriculum" into practice. From now on, each student must take at least one specially designed course in the humanities and the social and natural sciences. Sample...