Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surrender, had gained control of 90 percent of the island's economic enterprises and had substituted Chinese technicians and civil officials for Formosans, irrespective of their abilities. Incited by there resulting inflation and the oppressive Chinese government, the Formosans rebelled in 1947. The uprising was brutally surprised-nearly ten thousand Formosans lost their lives-but it did lead to a more enlightened rule until 1949, when Chiang again restored martial law temporarily to the island...
Last week, as Siamese energy and money combined to lift the face of Bangkok, telephone poles were uprooted along all of the city's main roads and moved back to make the cluttered highways passable to the expected influx of conference limousines. Eighty thousand flowering shrubs were brought in from the countryside and planted along roads and canals with, as one Siamese paper put it, "express orders to bloom when the visitors arrived." Early in the week Bangkok's fast-cracking Public Works Chief Luang Burakam decided that the main street before the great former royal palace where...
...thousand shivering workers gathered outside the steel plants and shipyards of Amagasaki one day last week, crowding and craning for a look at an old, partly paralyzed man bundled inside a black Chrysler Imperial. He did not appear, but from a loudspeaker hooked up with the car, his deep voice boomed out: "My friends, I am Ichiro Hatoyama." The crowd waited for him to continue...
...gave way backward as gracefully as I could, aware of the padding in the shoulder of my jacket. Just as I turned to leave, I heard someone say, "The heart of a Judoist must at all times be like a thousand mirrors, reflecting god-like speed and courage...
...cheap, light airplane in which the youngster can fly around the field, and when he gets a bit better take his girl friend up too, must remain with us . . . We must keep the airplane for pleasure, for an afternoon's fun which does not need two or three thousand yards of runway, control towers and controls, and all the paper work that makes life so intolerable these days for the private aviator. Give me a field with a circle in the middle, and let us still enjoy those things which have almost disappeared with the biplane and the open...