Word: teng
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week the peasants were being asked to believe a startling promise. By the fall of 1961, says Vice Premier Teng Tzu-hui, the lower reaches of the world's siltiest river will indeed run crystal-clear. Red China has decided to take on the proud and tempestuous Yellow...
...speech sent China's Communists flying into action. New cadres were trained and sent out to ginger up timorous local committees; schools for two million bookkeepers were started. Evidently there were sweeping changes in the top command: Teng Tsu-hui, China's farm boss, has not been seen or heard from since. By last month the Central Committee was ready to spring the new line. Mao's speech (made public for the first time) provided the new battle cries. Red China's ubiquitous loudspeakers dinned his down-on-the-farm phrases about bound-foot hobblers into...
...printing presses rumbled their accompaniment. From Vice Minister of Health Fu Lien-chang came a long eulogy of Soviet medicine; from Feminist Teng Yingchao (wife of Premier Chou Enlai), a brochure extolling Soviet standards in marriage and personal relations...
...Green Table. The reporters were not admitted to the conference room, but got a detailed picture of what it was like inside. The North Korean delegation head, General Nam II, smoked incessantly at the green baize table. On his right were the two Chinese, Teng Gua and Hsieh Feng, and on his left the two other North Koreans, Lee Song Cho and Chang Pyong San. The U.N. delegation was seated similarly, with Admiral Joy opposite...
...Tuesday of this week. At this meeting, the U.N. team will be headed by Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy (see box). The Communist delegation will be composed of three North Koreans, General Nam II, General Chang Pyong San and Major General Lee Sang Cho, and two Chinese, Generals Teng Hua and Hsieh Fang...