Word: yun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, China's Ta Rung Pao (The Impartial) cherished its role as an independent newspaper, liked to think of itself as the New York Times of China. But last November, Editor Wang Yun-sheng, correctly gauging the strength of the red tide, left the main office at Shanghai and turned up in Communist-held Peiping to confess his sins. In 20 years with Ta Rung Pao, admitted Wang, he had failed: "Although [I tried] to run the paper as an independent one, in reality it has betrayed the interests of the people . . . There is no neutrality for a journalist...
...Suitor. In Shanghai, Miss Chang Yun-shiu had the law on Ma Shu-li after he 1) protested his love for her in a letter written in blood; 2) threatened to kill her; 3) tried for the third time to climb in her bedroom window...
...Yun Ho, as you may recall, met his present parishioners one day last summer when he went for a walk by the River Han and saw the swarms of ragged urchins clawing over the piled-up refuse for scraps of coal or tin or paper that could possibly be sold. In time he made friends with them and, while awaiting the arrival of fresh loads of garbage, told them Bible stories and taught them a few hymns. After a while he moved into a packing case at the dump and began to build his church. When TIME told his story...
...contributions from the U.S. began arriving. At present they total more than $1,200, which has been turned over to George Fitch, local director of the YMCA and an old Asia hand, for conversion into yen (Koreans may not possess American money). With this more than ample sum Ye Yun Ho now plans the following projects...
...flock of more than 200 young Christian scavengers who faithfully attend his Sunday School, Ye Yun Ho is presently engaged in a campaign to teach them the use of soap and water. Believing that cleanliness is next to godliness, he has been cutting cakes of soap from the relief packages into small pieces and leading his charges down the embankment from the church to the Han, where, he says, he is making slow but recognizable headway in teaching them the blessings of a daily bath...