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Teng likes to hint that he was merely a poor farmer's son. In fact, he was born in Szechwan to a well-to-do family. Like Chou, Teng went to France on a work-study program when he was 16. Before he left Paris six years later, he had joined the Chinese Communist Party. He returned home (by way of Moscow) to become a guerrilla commander after the Communist split with Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang in 1927. Also like Chou, he is a veteran of Mao's legendary Long March, which until recently was essential for anyone hoping...
...still want him back, then?" the judge asks her, kindly, with only the slightest hint of reproach or mockery...
...buses: "Ask any player--the worst thing is thing is the buses." Even though the Red Sox are a "class organization" like the Phillies and the Dodgers, teams that take care of their own, life in the minor leagues can be lackluster. The big stadium is there--the hint of what could come in a wild dream--but the stands are usually near-empty; loudspeakers play "Knock Three Times" between innings and the "bullpen" is likely to be a bench near the left field line. The Eastern League has a grueling schedule, too: 40 games in 144 days, April...
...Them" again. The most rebellious thing Brayton ever did was to hint at threatening to quit when he was on Winston-Salem. Soon afterwards he was called up to Bristol. But always the paranoid, he worries that "They" only wanted to appease...
...have never been coherently explained; and his involvement in the accidental death of a young, attractive campaign worker has immeasurably damaged his reputation--personally and politically. Kennedy made tortured and wrong decisions in those early morning hours, decisions that have haunted him. It was to be the first hint of scandal behind the wall of Camelot...