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Word: yu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among the defeated was Kenyatta's righthand man and brother-in-law, Mbi-yu Koinange, who got through the 1974 election by locking up his opponent before voting day and releasing him afterward. The President has also begun to chip away at the large business and land holdings of the Kenyatta family by quietly authorizing repossessions of property by unpaid creditors and pressing for payment of back taxes. The total wealth is staggering; Jomo Kenyatta's estate alone is estimated to be worth more than $200 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Arap Moi Again | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

...Jinxing television store on Nanjing Avenue, by women at the First Department Store's display of pleated skirts. In neither location are the displayed goods in stock. Other young people simply while away the hours gazing at goldfish from the deck of the Yu Gardens Tea House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Jobless Generation | 9/3/1979 | See Source »

Piano Recital--Joyce Yu-Cheng Chung; work of Faure, Liszt, Chopin; Currier House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar April 19-April 25 | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

People of all ages stop to buy rice porridge or yu-t'iao, a deep-fried cruller that sells for 20. Others, in every available space, are somberly engaged in t'ai-chi-ch'uan, the balletic, trancelike exercise that is supposed to tone all muscles and compose the soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: China Says: Ni hao! | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...Crimson controlled play for much of the second half but could not strike paydirt until Tom Barber took a fine centering pass from Rich Yu and fired it into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Minutemen Thwart J.V. Booters, 2-1 | 10/5/1978 | See Source »

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