Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were Negro and white troops. Advance contingent was a regiment of engineers who had built Army bases in Canada. Their camps were exotic-clusters of bamboo bashas (huts) surrounded by giant hardwoods, wild growths of pale orchids, glistening green jungles. But incessant rains drenched them. Roving Jap patrols sniped at them. They were enervated by the heat, plagued by hordes of mosquitoes and bloodthirsty leeches that suck a man white if he drops from wounds or exhaustion...
...Chungking area, where Chinese pilots took them on. Jap bombs fell outside the city limits, did little damage. Reported ex-Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times: "Among the targets most valiantly attacked . . . were rice fields, vegetable gardens, flower gardens, one dammed-up swimming hole, clumps of bamboo, the mud banks of the Chialing River and the middle of the Chialing River itself. If it were not for the presence of the bloody, mangled corpses of Chinese coolies ... it would be a pleasure to describe this raid as a comic triumph of bad marksmanship and general stupidity...
...wooded Ruling, where the Generalissimo used to hold his open-air summer conferences in the years before the Japs came, it was Lin Sen's pleasure to place stone seats beside the pleasant walks among the rustling bamboo groves and within sound of the waterfalls. He had a warning carved on the seats: "He who keeps a concubine, keep...
Several of the girls who happened to the rowing on the Charles in the cool afternoon sent beaming smiles glowing over the water, perhaps accounting for the vigor with which all four platoons bang "Under A Bamboo Tree," "It's A Long Way to Tipperary," and "Around Her Neck She Wore A Yellow Ribbon...
...this ... 'Radcliffian can win Hollywood role in picture about Harvard Lampoon vs. Bamboo Starlets." With the Hays office, we prefer to let sleeping bags...