Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese traffic is a cacophonous confusion. Rickshas, passenger wheelbarrows, pedestrians with bound feet, pigs, dogs, chickens, ducks, sedan chairs, porters shouldering loads on swaying bamboo poles, buffalo and pony carts, busses, trucks, automobiles, jeeps move, when they succeed in moving at all, to the left in China's streets. Last week the Chinese press undertook to get all this confusion moving to the right...
...hours the sound truck howled Japanese into the silent bamboo and sword grass of southern Guam's jungle. Suddenly from the green wall emerged a chubby, medium-sized young man, blinking in the sun. While U.S. officers watched, the Jap trudged up the hill and saluted. Ten months after the U.S. recapture of Guam, the last Japanese officer was willing to talk surrender...
...Japanese rout grew, U.S. planes searched the roads and trails for the retreating enemy. One observation plane called for fire on a column in shiny American cars, stolen in Manila, and bamboo-hooded carabao carts, snatched from Igorot farmers. Wrote TIME Correspondent William Gray: "When I saw the area two days later, burned roadside huts were still smoking, the air was ripe with the stench of dead men and animals and souring spilled rice. A scattered pile...
...missionaries-seven women and four men-had picked the spot to hide in before the Philippines fell. With their fellow refugees, they had lived like natives, eating rice and bananas and sleeping in grass, huts with bamboo floors. Often, when the Japs were rumored to be advancing, they had hurriedly abandoned the little settlement and hid out in native huts or in foxholes until the scare passed. When the Japs finally did come to Hopevale, there was no warning...
Family Man. Jolly and chipper, and carrying a bamboo cane, the President's mother thoroughly enjoyed her first flight. At the capital, she was greeted by her son and granddaughter, then stepped into a swarm of cameramen. A little flustered at first, she quickly regained composure, said to the President: "Oh, fiddlesticks. If I'd known that, I wouldn't have come...