Word: tingeing
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...when it threatened to become too disruptive. Last August an article in the theoretical journal Red Flag blamed internal bickering and factionalism for the fall of the brutal, short-lived Chin dynasty of the 3rd century B.C. This subtle piece of historical allegory was written by one Lo Szu-ting; Sinologists regard him as a spokesman for Mao-if not Mao himself writing under a pen name. Since then, there has been scarcely a murmur from the radicals...
...otherwise bright picture is the prospect of curtailed foreign markets in 1974-a likely result of the energy crisis and a 30% increase in consumer prices between January and February. The price rise was intentionally designed "all at once and once and for all" by Finance Minister Li Kwoh-ting to meet the increasing costs of such imports as soybeans and gasoline...
...limit production. South Korea is perhaps most vulnerable of all. Its economic growth rate reached a remarkable 12% in 1973, but the Seoul government predicts that will be cut in half this year. Many Korean synthetic-textile plants have slashed production by 50% because of the difficulty of get ting petrochemicals from Japan, and others have shut down completely. That hurts especially because Korean textile and plastics plants, which also use petrochemicals, produce largely for sale abroad. A cut in exports is about the last thing that the Korean economy, already groaning under a heavy load of foreign debt...
...hitters. "1 was able to take advantage of my opportunity," he says, "and I hope LeFlore can too." He had also best take advantage of opposing pitchers: after two weeks with the Clinton Pilots, LeFlore was batting a dismal .125. The ex-con rookie is confident that his hit ting will improve once he overcomes a slight case of nerves and gets accustomed to playing night games. In prison, he explains, the floodlights were not used for baseball...
Grandmother De specializes in winding her 15 clocks and never let ting Egan's mother forget that she mar ried beneath herself. The truth is that outside the hermetic DeWhit family, Egan Fletcher Sr. is a famous professional baseball player. He plays some unspecified position with a club known as the Washington Teutonians, but he is also an overpowering utility father figure. Returning for a stay with his family, he reignites his wife's banked passions and her family's recriminations. Grandfather dies, Egan's sister runs off with the first boy to find...