Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surabaya, Java, for air-raid shelters, recently dug trenches, screened them with bamboo as protection against bomb splinters and flying debris. Last week travelers from Java reported that a few weeks after the shelters were built pleased natives wrote a letter of thanks to the Government. "Thank you very much for the new W.C.s," said the letter. "We have needed them for a long time." Dutch officers hastily inspected the new shelters, found the letter was no joke...
...easy to see as a yellow ribbon binding a pile of green bundles. That it has not been permanently cut has been due to the halfheartedness and poor aim of Japanese bombers, and to the amazing Chinese capacity for regeneration. Thousands of coolies mend steel bridges with bamboo and rope, fill craters and landslides with little basketfuls of dirt...
...entire Ichang Front. All around him were the Chinese strong points: machine-gun posts supported by trenched rifle pits. Farther down were lines of trenches skillfully disguised by green branches, banks of sod, transplanted wheat; odoriferous dugouts in which odoriferous soldiers huddled 24 hours a day; then bamboo and wooden barricades and mine traps; and finally 200 yards of no man's land. Beyond were the Japanese lines-barbed wire, solidly barricaded trenches, concrete emplacements. The whole scene was intimately still-so still that the coolie could hear bees buzzing in the fields; except every few minutes when...
...Szechwan three years ago a native found a baby giant panda, replete with tender bamboo shoots, logily sitting on a log, bagged her, sold her to U.S. rarity-trappers. Third of the seven live pandas to enter the U.S., the five-week-old Bei-Shung (white bear) became Pandora of The Bronx Zoo. In her cage she prowled and played and delicately nibbled asparagus tips, a conscious comic who put even sophisticates in stitches with her improvised routines...
Their undulations take place on the three ornate sets devised by begoggled Cedric Gibbons. Best of them is the Trinidad set: a forest of 150-foot bamboo trees clustered with tufted satin starfish and giant seashells...