Word: ti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many, however, were already fleeing. On a train from Tientsin to Peiping, I noticed a freight train headed the other way toward the port, bearing three shiny new automobiles. A young, black-uniformed railway guard watched the cars pass. "Yu-chien-ti tu pao" (Have-money people all run), he observed...
...exiled Italian anarcho-socialist. Tresca's Italian-language weekly, Il Martello (The Hammer), publicly accused Vidali-Contreras of many acts of terrorism, and the following specific crimes: 1) the assassination in Barcelona of Camillo Berneri, Italian anarchist, during the Spanish civil war; 2) the murder in Mexico of Tiña Modotti, Vidali's Communist mistress...
...Huang Ti lived-and some Chinese scholars believe that he was just the personification of an era-it was from B.C. 2697 to 2595. Chinese credit him with the invention of armor and wheeled vehicles...
Some no miles away in Sian, Shensi's Governor Chu Shao-chou, unable to reach Huang Ti's tomb this year, led a Nationalist ceremony of "distant obeisance...
...come with fragrant flowers and sweet wine to pray. . . ." Then came the political snapper: "No matter how American imperialism exerts itself, the children of the Yellow Emperor will unite under the Chinese Communist Party and . . . thoroughly exterminate all of Chiang Kai-shek's gangsters." They wished Huang Ti's posterity "10,000 years, 1,000 autumns...