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Word: weies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that his policy was "unrealistic and fallacious." Taipei's semi-independent United Daily News, in an almost unheard of salvo at Chiang's Cabinet, blasted the Foreign Ministry for being "cowardly and insensitive" in making Taiwan's case in Washington. Last week mild-mannered Foreign Minister Wei Tao-ming, 72, a Paris-educated lawyer and wartime Ambassador to the U.S., abruptly decided to retire, citing reasons of health. The "Gimo," who is now 83, has also decided that the Nationalists should press their case via a diplomatic offensive aimed at every trade fair and VIP in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Parrying a Policy | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

Instead of A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, people sing "One mighty Family, A single noble race,/Sending its sons and daughters/Bravely into Space ..." The common obscenity is "fight," as in "fight you" or "you brother-fighter." On less vehement occasions the universal expression is "Christ, Marx, Wood and Wei," the four deities of the drugged society. Christ and Marx, O.K. Wei is a mischief-making Oriental seer who appears in the book. But who's Wood? The author has hinted that he made Wood up. But could it possibly be Speed-Reading Guru Evelyn Wood, who has, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: E Pluribus Uni | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

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