Word: whirlwinding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whirlwind Hand. When the fierce Chin Tartars ("The Golden Tribes") swept down over the Great Wall, captured the capital Kaifeng and took Sung Emperor Huitsung, along with 3,000 of his court, into captivity in Mongolia, about 6,500 paintings in the imperial collection dating back over 1,000 years were destroyed or dispersed. But the Sung Dynasty held out in the south for another 150 years-long enough to make their new capital. Hangchow, with its willows and delicately arched bridges, one of the most beautiful cities of antiquity...
Believing with Lao-tzu, the founder of Taoism, that inspiration comes in a flash and cannot be long sustained, the Ch'an painter worked in monochrome "as if a whirlwind possessed his hand." Greatest of them all was Liang K'ai, who had won the Emperor's highest painting award, the Golden Girdle, before he retired to a Buddhist monastery. He dashed off such inspired sketches as his Ink Brushing of an Immortal, showing a monk tearing off his shirt to prove the indifference of the enlightened man to outward appearances...
...offered a number of exciting war heroes and stimulating politicians as speakers. Prizes were offered for the best billiard player, pool player, and "that freshman member who at midyears, has achieved highest standing in studies and activities." Democratic Presidential Candidate James M. Cox stopped by to speak on his "whirlwind tour of New England" in 1920. The Union's University overseers had to stamp down student requests for Socialists Debs and Nearing, when a similar group at Dartmouth had invited a pair to speak...
...Prime Minister has never been a man to sit long behind a desk. For three whirlwind weeks before the elections (which would last for almost three weeks) he swept across the nation, traveling by jeep, river steamer, sky-blue Cadillac, and his own Russian Ilyushin plane Messenger of the Clouds (the gift of Bulganin and Khrushchev) to address crowds that sometimes numbered...
...salaries and savings of two modestly paid Government officials. (Osborne, 43, is now an economist in the Bureau of the Budget in Washington; Victor, 37, is still in Tokyo as top U.S. Information Service radio-TV man.) The Hauges got off to a flying start with the whirlwind of inflation that swept the Japanese yen from 15 all the way to 360 to the dollar. At the same time the Hauges were reaping a paper harvest of yen, Japanese families, hit with postwar taxes, were living an "onionskin existence," peeling off long-treasured art works to stay afloat...