See Also: Truong Chinh(encyclopedia)

Kim's game (iou) and Truong Chinh (sh)


Kim's game (iou)



Kim's game noun phr. E20.
[from Kim (the eponymous hero of) a book by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), in which a similar game is played.]
A memory-testing game in which players try to remember as many as possible of a set of objects briefly shown to them.

Truong Chinh (sh)




orig. Dang Xuan Khu

born Feb. 9, 1907, Ha Nam Ninh province, Viet.
died Sept. 30, 1988, Hanoi

Vietnamese statesman, writer, and communist intellectual.

He was an anticolonialist activist as a youth, joining Ho Chi Minh in 1928. He became a teacher and joined the Indochinese Communist Party, becoming its secretary-General in 1941. With Vo Nguyen Giap he developed the strategy that led to a Vietnamese victory over the Japanese occupation forces in 1945. With Le Duan (1908-86) and Pham Van Dong (1906-2000) he ruled North Vietnam after Ho's death in 1969.