Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victor and the Living Buddha. Emily's Shanghai apartment had green walls, ceilings spangled with stars and crescent moons, silver-gilt furniture, 60 satin cushions. Gibbons were her favorite pets. Dressed in diapers, they swung from the bars of a bamboo grille. From the back room came the steady tap-tap-tap of an illegal wireless transmitter, planted there by some amiable Chinese guerrillas. Emily's other friends included fabulously rich Sir Victor Sassoon (he gave Emily a snappy Chevrolet coupé), the gouty Living Buddha of Outer Mongolia ("I have nothing to do all day," he said...
Rations. Jungle-fighting Japs can carry a 15-day supply of rice, which they mix with fish, bamboo shoots, water ferns, etc., but U.S. soldiers must tote monotonous K rations-and a 15-day supply would weigh 38½ pounds. Hence rations often have to be dropped in the jungle from planes, with the consequent danger that the enemy may spot the locations and gauge the strength of U.S. columns...
They took him to town in a bamboo...
...water was losing out. Pick, an incessant worker and a hard driver, fought it 24 hours a day, using his equipment and men in shifts. Lead bulldozers, often within sound of the fighting front, were no strangers to the white-thatched engineer who trudged the job with his bamboo staff...
...Bamboo Music Hall. Major Clark Robinson organized the show in Assam while constructing a crude movie theater known as the Bamboo Music Hall. Robinson, a former New York scenic designer (Radio City Music Hall, the Roxy Theater), got the help of Private Al Roth as stage man- ager, gathered talent as he could find it. Props were made from whatever came handy...