Word: pi
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Died. Yen Pi Shih, fiftyish, Moscow-trained former member of Communist China's Politburo; after long illness; in Peking...
When the first Russians entered China long ago, the button-nosed Chinese dubbed them to, pi-tze, or Big Noses. Last week, a count of the Big Noses in Red China totaled more than 150,000 soldiers and civilians...
This suspicion grew into a certainty early this month during a bitter Peronista campaign against Deputy Juan Casella Piñero of the Buenos Aires provincial legislature. Casella, a Radical, had been found guilty of remaining seated during a rising tribute to Argentina's liberator, José de San Martin. The entire Peronista propaganda machine swung into action to have Casella expelled. As Minister of Education, and as chairman of the current Year of San Martin celebrations, Ivanissevich was ordered to schedule one hour of speechmaking in the schools to blot out Casella's insult to the liberator...
...capital of Peking, Communist Vice Premier Tung Pi-wu bluntly told a relief commission: "We are faced with a serious war against spring famine...
...major pieces had been partly in spired, said Marini, by the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome's Pi azza del Campidoglio. But there was noth ing conventionally heroic about Marini's riders ; they were scared, not proud. They looked, indeed, very much like lonely, out size babies mounted bareback on broad, unbridled Mongolian ponies - going no where. Marini had carved them with mingled delicacy and deliberate awkward ness, sacrificing handsomeness to pathos...