Word: wu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smith College Chien-Shiung Wu, physicist, co-disprover of the famed law of the conservation of parity Sc.D. Gwendolyn Grant Mellon, philanthropist, nurse, founder with her husband of Haiti's Albert Schweitzer Hospital L.H.D...
Biggest trouble of all was in the hastily created people's communes, which showed signs of developing into self-contained economic empires. Some communes, "regardless of the state plan," refused to surrender any of their harvest for distribution in the cities. Complained Finance Vice Minister Wu Po: "There are even communes that make no distinction between their own property and that of the state. They freely use state materials stored in warehouses, eat state grain as they like, and take things from stockpiles without bothering to render receipts...
...Chinese masters, says Watts, was wu-shih, which means "nothing special," or "no fuss." Bohemian affectations or monastery meditations are both forms of fuss, "and I will admit that the very hullabaloo about Zen, even in such an article as this, is also fuss-but a little less...
Citation: "As Helen of Troy, renowned sister of Castor and Pollux, proved the unwisdom of underestimating the powers of woman, so Dr. Wu . . . has richly earned the right to be called the foremost female experimental physicist...
...composers in the recent history of opera was British-born (of French descent) Piano Virtuoso Eugène d'Albert. In a career otherwise occupied with six marriages, teaching and lucrative concert tours, he managed to compose 20 musical melodramas, ending with a preposterous oriental olio called Mr. Wu that he left unfinished when he died in 1932. Most of his concoctions were unqualified flops, partly because Composer d'Albert had difficulty deciding whose horn he was tooting-Puccini's or Richard Strauss's. The only currently heard remnant of his life's work...