Word: yang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this aloofness between us was Precious, a bastardized mouse of a chihuahua. Precious was the yin and yang of the Connally marriage--on any given night the pitch and frequency of the despicable creature's yaps would reveal the flow of the marital battle--the advances and retreats of the two sides, the victories, the losses...
Those doctors and medical technicians who practice acupuncture according to the old Chinese principles put forth in this book maintain that it works by correcting an imbalance of Yin, the female element, and Yang, the male element. These traditionalists say there is an invisible system of meridians in the body and along each meridian there is a series of acupuncture points--supposedly 300 in all--which, when pierced correctly, can cure an illness...
...determined that there are acupuncture points which range in size from a pinpoint to the size of a silver dollar that do in fact exist. But they claim there are at least a thousand of them. The whole idea of meridians, however, along the Eastern philosophy of Yin and Yang, is alien to conventional Western thought...
...face the enemy, but there is not half a single reason for a split." As if to make concrete the spirit of national unity and the rejection of factionalism, 13 high-ranking army officers purged during the Cultural Revolution were rehabilitated last month. The most important of them, Yang Chengwu and Yu Li-chin, were purged in 1968 for sending squads of soldiers to attack the Cultural Revolution headquarters and arresting members of the Cultural Revolutionary leadership...
...looks to help soften Trudeau's abrasive and sometimes arrogant image. "He's a beautiful guy, a very loving human being who has taught me a lot about loving," she told their audiences. "He's shy, modest and very, very kind." Between their Canadian yin-and-yang act, there were a few political handouts: Trudeau pledged that he would enact a low-income housing program with small down-payment mortgages; $500 in cash, tax free, from the government toward the purchase of a first house; guaranteed incomes for the disabled...