Word: tai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students who call themselves "The Chinese High School Singsong and Harmonica Corps" were practicing in a second-floor club in one of the busy sections of Singapore. From the bottom of the stairs, a voice called up and asked in friendly Mandarin to speak to Corps Leader Lee Tai Lim. A few seconds later, a shot rang out and 21-year-old Lee fell dead in the street. He had been well known in Singapore as an active anti-Communist student leader. Said the police, as they offered a record reward of 25,000 Straits dollars ($8,333) for finding...
...Reds have not yet achieved all their objectives, but so far only a handful of students have dared to resist openly, among them the murdered Lee Tai Lim. Few students cared or dared to comment on Lee's death, and only twelve attended his funeral...
...made the victory relaxed under a prebreakfast massage in his 13-room, Western-style house on a hill in central Tokyo, while supporters trooped in with sake, beer, and trays of tai fish for a long day of celebration. For most of his adult life, Ichiro Hatoyama has longed to govern Japan. In fact, even before he was born, his politician father intended him to be a politician, and his mother, a woman of learning and vigor who believed that a child in the womb is shaped by the mother's thoughts, carefully limited her pregnancy reading to biographies...
...view in Paris' Pedagogical Museum. Among some 300 childish works done by boys and girls in France's Pacific possessions were nine drawings of special interest: they were done by six of the eight grandchildren of Paul Gauguin and Tehura. The most promising talent among Emile Tai's children was that of eleven-year-old Adolphe, whose dark browns and blues could, by only a slight stretch of imagination, be made to recall his grandfather's mastery of color. But the real tear-squeezer of the show was twelve-year-old Célina Tai...
This Elysian union in time produced a son, Emile Tai, who grew up like the other native children. He never learned to read or write, took a native wife, settled himself as a vegetable dealer in the village of Punaauia, seven miles from Papeete. All that Gauguin's son knew of his father (who died in 1903) were vague stories told him by his mother. For almost 50 years, the outside world paid little attention to what had happened to Gauguin's native family...