Word: yenan
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...most indigestible. Tough, resilient, raised on the vigorous traditions of free enterprise, Shanghailanders made little effort to conceal their contempt when Mao Tse-tung's troops entered in 1949, chuckled with sophisticated delight at such jokes as the story of a young officer fresh from the caves of Yenan who washed the dust from his rice ration in a hotel toilet bowl. "Just wait and see," went a confident Shanghai refrain. "We'll change the Communists...
...fuel industry by $45 million. Building standards for homes and offices must be "resolutely lowered." warned the official People's Daily. After all, added People's Daily, as if to explain everything, Chairman Mao spent eleven years of his life living in a cave at Yenan...
...China she hopes to renew her acquaint ance with Communist Premier Chou Enlai, whom she encountered in Yenan nine years ago at a dance. Recalled Anna Louise: "He's a very able and controlled type of person, and perfection in a waltz...
...Communist advance in Asia. This was the place-a wrench-shaped "linguistic state" of 21 million Telugu-speaking people carved out of its neighbors in 1953-which the Communists had confidently expected to make their first political base in India. They talked extravagantly of turning Andhra into their "Yenan," a citadel from which they could subvert the rest of India. They already had 46 seats, only seven fewer than the Congress Party, in the state assembly. Andhra is their kind of breeding ground: a place of extreme and uncaring wealth, and of miserable poverty. In Andhra, four in every...
...Andhra is India's first "linguistic state," formed in 1953 among the 21 million Telegu-speaking people. As such, it is only one of 29 Indian states, but India's Communists hope to make it their first conquest; they talk confidently of converting Andhra into an Indian "Yenan," a power base from which they can subvert the rest of India...