Word: tien
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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China's Red press described the liquidation of one "batch," numbering several hundred. Tien Feng had wrecked locomotive boilers in Peking's railroad shop. Li Chih-hsiang had ruined wind gauges, wind pumps and water pumps. Tung Hua-chang had inspired workers to slow down. Chin Han-kui had fabricated 90 false rumors against the government. On their way to execution, the victims were paraded slowly through Peking's streets to the scenes of their crimes, where death was meted...
After attending Holy Year ceremonies, Thomas Cardinal Tien, 60, Archbishop of Peking and the first Chinese to be elevated to cardinal, arrived in Manhattan on his way to a Cincinnati hospital for treatment of an eye ailment and a heart condition.* With the aid of an interpreter, he told reporters that he was seriously worried about the uncertain future of the 12,000 priests and nuns in Red China of whom 11,000 are Chinese...
...black Buick sedan drew up before Britain's Foreign Office in Whitehall. Out stepped Dr. Cheng Tien-hsi, Nationalist China's urbane and scholarly ambassador, summoned to hear a judgment from His Britannic Majesty's Government...