Word: thai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, with supply still limited to backdoor lines from India, Chinese troops did the best they could, hacked cautiously at targets of opportunity. When Thai puppets suddenly deserted the Japanese, the Chinese seized the opportunity and dashed across the Indo-China frontier to take the minor port of Moncay on the Gulf of Tonkin. The capture of this position gave Chungking the hint of a corridor...
...cook the Queen her favorite dishes. If she did not see eye to eye with him on policy, Alberoni would refuse to cook for her. "If he wanted her to force some proposal of his upon her [husband], she would . . . set in motion the complicated system of springs thai sent her bed shooting away from Philip...
...Shwe Waing is a fine example of what may well prove to be a revolution in language teaching. What Yale is doing with Burmese, Malayan, Japanese, Chinese and-most popular of all-Russian, is being done in pretty much the same way with other tongues elsewhere: University of California (Thai, Annamese), Pennsylvania (Moroccan Arabic, Hausa, Fanti) Indiana (Turkish). Noise Guide. Charming, handsome Shwe Waing was a sailor; his home port was Rangoon, where once a soothsayer said he would become a teacher. Last spring Yale picked him off Ellis Island. Technically Shwe Waing is no teacher but a guide through...
Recent directives of Thailand's Office of National Culture: 1) tables and chairs should be used when dining; 2) unhappy husbands will please divorce their wives instead of beating them. Last week the battle for culture hammered at a new objective: Bangkok Radio instructed the Thai people to "stop sitting on sidewalks; it is not sanitary and shows a weakness of the mind...
...President, ten Cabinet officers, five State Department officials, five Ministers, including the Dutch, Thai and British...