Word: tais
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet official washed down a slice of spiced duck with a slug of mao-tai at the 24th yearly National Day* celebration in the Chinese embassy in Moscow last week and proclaimed: "I am still optimistic." He was referring to the prospects of a break in the marathon dispute between the two Communist giants, but his hope must have been fed by the convivial atmosphere. In fact, signs of a Sino-Soviet thaw are about as scarce as palm trees in Peking or Moscow...
...been built during the early Western Han Dynasty, which ruled China from 206 B.C. to A.D. 24. The tomb was immediately recognized as a major historical and artistic find. But it was not until archaeologists began to exhume the body of Lady Li, whose husband was the Marquis of Tai, that they realized that they had made a significant scientific discovery as well...
...ends this week. They were shocked to find that the Chinese have hiked their prices up to or even above world market scales. Rugs were up 200% over a year ago, and antiques and jade are going for 40% to 300% more than last year. The price of mao-tai, the potent millet liquor, has soared to $28 a bottle-more than twice the price of Chivas Regal...
...walked past Whangpoo Park, which until 1928 bore the sign, NO DOGS OR CHINESE ALLOWED. The main part of Chung Shan Road pulsates with exercisers: sword dancers, slow-motion shadowboxers practicing the ancient art of tai chi chuan, joggers, tumblers, wrestlers and a few elderly gentlemen who simply lean against a tree and let one leg swing free. The skilled performers draw a great collar of spectators around them. Study the faces. They are the young men and women of the new China, calm, well fed, drably dressed and always surprised at the sight of a foreigner. Only...
...Tai's, dear friends, are what we drink in Hawaii and now also apparently at Charlie's. Mao-tai is the famous North China firewater, a very different thing. James C. Thomson, Jr. Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism...