Word: takeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Delhi released three letters the Dalai Lama was supposed to have written to the acting Chinese representative in Tibet, General Tan Kuan-san. In each letter the Dalai Lama allegedly told "Dear Comrade, Political Commissar Tan" of the plots by a "reactionary clique" to foment trouble and even to take his life...
...surrender any of their harvest for distribution in the cities. Complained Finance Vice Minister Wu Po: "There are even communes that make no distinction between their own property and that of the state. They freely use state materials stored in warehouses, eat state grain as they like, and take things from stockpiles without bothering to render receipts...
With the "tidying up" of the communes has gone an all-out drive for sensible priorities in industry. "Take the whole country as a coordinated chess game," urges the People's Daily. "To guarantee construction of important projects, we must learn how to give up favorite local projects." The theoretical journal Red Flag demanded fewer shock programs, insisted that even during such programs, "sufficient labor should be reserved for normal production." In Manchuria, local planners, quick to take a hint, announced that railway laborers "drawn from the water conservancy and iron and steel battlefronts . . . will be asked to handle...
...Paris observers were predicting that the kind of tribal violence that its neighbors have known could well break out in the Central African Republic. Boganda's strength had turned out to be his country's most dangerous weakness: he had left no one behind big enough to take his place...
Underground oppositionists scoffed. Said one of their leaders: "On the day we take over, we will do all those things Stroessner promises today. And we will do one more thing: punish the men who enslaved, tortured and starved the people of Paraguay for years...