Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were ordered to follow the Chinese Sixth Army down to Loilem and left some time in February. When we got there they told us we would have to serve the whole army, not just one division. We went back and set up a base hospital in Loilem-bamboo huts and wards on a hill out of town, a lovely joint...
...From his bamboo and Saksak palm episcopal palace in Keita he and his 54 priests and nuns (including Father James Hennessy of Boston and Father John Conley of Philadelphia) range all through the innumberable islands, in launches and little outrigger canoes. They still encounter an occasional intimation of cannibalism. When one nun visited a remote mountain village in 1937, the chief took a bite out of her arm to sample her flesh but she received no other affront...
...cottage at Tagaytay. But they were not alone; they had to see to the care & feeding of two baby giant pandas, gifts of Madame Chiang Kaishek, en route to the U.S. Their magnificent wedding presents from Chinese officials-red satin embroidered blankets, silver filigree china, Tao silver and bamboo vases-went up in smoke a week later when Manila fell...
From innermost China the oil came, in bamboo-&-paper buckets, wooden tubs, in second-hand steel oil drums. After the eastern ports were lost, the oil moved down the Burma Road, under constant bombardment. The last consignments shoved off from Rangoon under a shower of bombs, shortly before the advancing Japanese captured the city in March- leaving the U.S. hereafter to fend for tung itself...
Although it was another generation's children who promised to be good all week if they could see a Chaplin comedy, the bantam tramp with his flapping shoes, battered derby hat, jaunty bamboo cane, absurd black mustache, shabby, defiant clothes, is not dated. The craftsmanship of his effortless performance-the innocent waddle, the peculiar childlike kick, the desperate elegance, the poignant gallantry-is still high comedy...