Word: chinging
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...China, it would be ching huan pu chieh, the time between the green and the yellow. In Poland, it would be na przednowku, the time-before the new. Soon, peasants in many hungry lands would have finished their spring planting; dreaded months of waiting were ahead. For until the seed bore fruit and the crop was in, how would the peasants and their city brethren live...
...Suffer the Children." I visited three Kalgan factories with a serene revolutionary, Professor Lin Tse-ming, onetime biologist at Peiping's U.S.-sponsored Yen-ching University and now Director of Studies at North China Union University. They were clean and running smoothly...
...other cities. Kuomintang partisans blamed the incident on "malicious elements." But Generalissimo Chiang, who was opposing Communist extremists in the north, now turned on Kuomintang extremists in Kunming. He dismissed the city's garrison commander, General Kwan Lin-cheng. He sent his Vice Minister of Education, Chu Ching-nung, to make an inquiry and offer amends. For hurling the fatal grenades, two men were executed on the spot of the crime...
...from Peiping flew a bevy of crack Central Government troubleshooters. One of them was affable General Tu Liming, Chungking's military commander for the Northeast. Another was Russian-speaking Chiang Ching-kuo, Chiang Kai-shek's elder son, who has a Russian wife and used to be at odds with his father, but is now one of the National Government's up-&-coming younger men and the Foreign Affairs Commissioner for the Northeast. A third was liberal Chang Kia-ngau, a Shanghai banker and ex-Minister of Communications, who has become one of the Generalissimo...
Chiang Kai-shek was not on hand when Mao deplaned at Chungking. But the welcoming delegation included the Generalissimo's eldest son, brisk, Moscow-trained Chiang Ching-kuo. Someone asked Mao: "What do you think of the plane?" Said he, with noticeable lack of fervor: "Very efficient." Ambassador Hurley would not think of letting the Communist leader ride in the limousine provided by the Generalissimo. He hustled Mao into his own black Cadillac. As they drove off, the high-spirited Oklahoma diplomat, whose Choctaw war whoops are the delight of Asia, yelled to the astonished crowd: "Olive oil! Olive...