Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says, is not the nice policeman of her story, but it may or may not be of interest that he is no longer a policeman. Instead of running down Communists, he is writing a book on Chinese secret societies. Han Suyin herself is just back from an extended visit to Peking, whose comrade-intellectuals gave her a red-carpet welcome to show that they liked her and her work, even if she did not (really) like them...
Their arrival was less noticed than is the usual custom for a Band visit, because last minute word of possible Tiger opposition forced cancellation of a predrawn serenade...
From Moscow a chastened Khrushchev telephoned to make his peace. Like wildfire word spread through the country that Khrushchev had apologized for his intemperate outbursts during his flying visit to Warsaw the week before. Most important of all, he was now prepared to accept Gomulka's "national Communism...
Adin was forthwith "shunned" by the whole sect. Friends stopped talking to him. Neighbors came to visit his wife when he was in the fields, left as soon as he returned. Irritated by his lonely existence, Adin finally lit on a group of neighbors and told them to stay away altogether. About this time a nephew decided Adin was showing signs of insanity. He had a talk with Psychologist Jacob Goering at Brook Lane, a Mennonite hospital for mental care. On the basis of the nephew's description, bolstered by talks with Adin's wife, Goering decided that...
...boat's food, tools and fishing gear overboard, cut the automatic pilot loose, pulled out a plug in the bait tank, set fire to the engine room, forced him to steer back to port by threatening him with a shotgun and butcher knives, because the cook wanted to visit his pregnant wife...