Word: tais
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...workers. The political pattern was similar to that in Poland, where the Communist-controlled underground clashed with the underground loyal to the Polish Government in Exile. In Shanghai the Communist underground was fighting a bitter, no-quarter battle against Chungking's underground, organized by keen, self-effacing General Tai Li, head of the Central Government's secret service. It was a battle in the dark, a focus of China's undeclared civil war, with both antagonists hunted by the Japanese, and hunting each other against a background of Japanese-inflicted misery, desolation, hunger and brutality...
...until nearly midnight. After that he visits his private patients. What amazes Westerners in Chungking is not the number of his patients but their prominence: he attends such august personages as the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang, Cabinet Ministers T. V. Soong, H. H. Kung, Chen Cheng and police head Tai...
Australians call it willy-willy; Filipinos, baguios; Chinese, tai-fun; Indians, typhoon. It is the wildest and most destructive of all storms.* Last week Atlantic Coast Americans, who got their word for it from the Carib Indian Huracan (god of stormy weather), were treated to an unusually messy hurricane. For the second time in six years, a tropical cyclone hit the Eastern seaboard with full force...
...danced in Moscow in the '20s, The Poppy was about a little cabaret dancer named Tai Hoa (symbolizing China) whose love for a Russian sea captain was frustrated by the machinations of an imperialistic British treaty-port commander named Sir Hips. The ballet ended with the murder of Tai Hoa by a jealous Chinese who is a tool of Sir Hips, and the rise of the Chinese proletariat to the strains of the Internationale...
Recently the Russian choreographer Igor Schwezoff brought The Poppy up to date. With a deft tour-en-l'air of the choreographic party line, Schwezoff abolished the evil British commander, converted Tai Hoa's murderer into a Japanese, added a British and a U.S. sailor (both very agreeable fellows), ended with the murder, not of Tai Hoa, but of the Japanese. The Manhattan audience did not seem to mind these alterations. As the Internationale burst from the City Center's orchestra, the crowd broke into cheers...