Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Desensitizing" injections seldom work. Those who cannot stomach most ordinary foods should experiment with exotic dishes such as wild rice, zucchini, kumquats, papayas, chestnut flour, bamboo shoots, reindeer meat...
...subtle twist in this morale offensive, which was aimed at Chungking in general and at Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in particular, was that one of the towns the Japanese advance rolled past was Fenghua, the "Gissimo's" birthplace. The Gissimo is sentimentally attached to Fenghua's bamboo-shaded hills, where he rested his injured back after he was kidnapped by the Communists and "Young Marshal" Chang Hsueh-liang in 1936, to its streets, which he widened out of his own pocket, to its school, which he built, to its graveyard, which he regards with proper filial devotion, since...
...ancient China, books were written on vertical bamboo slats. Significance of this finding: it probably explains why Chinese write up & down instead of across the page...
...English signs have been taken down. American films have been banned. Cabarets have been closed. Foreign clothes have become taboo for Japanese women. Even baseball has been Japanofied, with Japanese phrases substituted for such terms as "home run " "foul" and "kill the umpire" and with all bats made of bamboo. But last week Japan's xenophobes ran into a linguistic stone wall. Trying to enforce a new language law, designed to purify Japanese of foreign words, authorities found that English words had become deeply embedded in the language...
...cork up, is no single bombable pathway like the Burma Road. Instead, machinery, materiel and munitions are landed from junks or freighters on beaches at minor ports anywhere along the coast in small shipments, proceed inland through the countryside by a kind of osmosis, in carts or slung on bamboo poles between two coolies. Not until they are well away from the coast are supplies concentrated along the Hengyang (southern Hunan) Railroad that takes them upcountry...