Word: yen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came prepared to be busy. In that we have succeeded. We take courses. Our husband gets a yen for Faulkner; we read Faulkner. He starts Becoming a Writer. We type his manuscript. He takes up handball. We bandage his skinned knees...
...Closed Fist. After the war, Yenching returned to Peking, began turning out scholars, teachers, ministers and businessmen as before. But in 30 years, Yen-ching had also been turning out other alumni-students who, in the tolerant air of Yenching, had plunked for Communism. Such Yenching alumni now hold high posts in Mao Tse-tung's foreign ministry and his NKVD. They represent a philosophy that has no room for the Yenching idea...
...dead wife, and even more by the misfortunes that hound him: his horse is mysteriously crippled, his dog killed, his rosebush poisoned, his favorite painting bleached and, finally, his house burned to a crisp. A kindly doctor warns Betsy that Young is a dangerous paranoiac with a yen for damaging his own property, and even Young urges her to stay away. But she sticks by him right to the psychiatricky finish...
...customs officers, eying the party, remarked that it was "just like an Easter parade." The men in General Wu's group all sported new Fifth Avenue suits. Miss Kung Pu-sheng, third in the delegation's rank, wore two orchids on her mouton coat. Miss Chou Yen, probably No. 8 in the group, rated only one orchid on the worn fur coat she had brought from Peking. Newsmen asked who gave them the flowers. The women answered: "Does it matter? Is it vital...
...Indonesia and other Far Eastern points, Baker had extended conversations with U.S. diplomats, local government leaders and businessmen. In Japan, he is convinced that the economy is reviving strongly. TIME-LIFE International, which prints two-thirds of its Pacific edition in Tokyo, has switched from a dollar to a yen basis in carrying on its Japanese business; from now on it will be accepting Japanese currency instead of dollars in payment for our magazines...