Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...softened Akutagawa's savage original, In a Grove, with a benign ending. Readers with hardy digestions can now compare the two and sample five other Akutagawa short stories of lesser scope, all of which combine a bitter misanthropy with a craft that is as spare and durable as bamboo...
...Black River, the Reds were using their old shock tactics: waves of expendables in sleeveless, padded green jackets shouting "Hochiminh Muon Nam" (Ho Chi Minh lives 1,000 years), throwing themselves on the French wire with bamboo Bangalore torpedoes and blasting a path for later waves. On the Red River front, Communist resistance, which had faded before the armor, was now reappearing in the rear and extended flanks of the French column, but the French drive itself threatened Thai Nguyen, the reputed Red capital, 44 miles north of Hanoi. In the flat, flooded delta, the brunt of guerrilla attack, directed...
...edge of a forest, "I stood beside a dark grey rock, twelve feet high." It was the mother. "Her eyes were uncanny, fixed and empty." Oberjohann judged that she "had actually been driven mad by her boundless sorrow at losing her child. I prodded her trunk lightly with my bamboo staff." Dully, she moved away. Next night she destroyed a native village, but Oberjohann never saw her again...
...Viet Minh's General Vo Nguyen Giap had three Red divisions which had lain low for eight months. Last fortnight Giap attacked on a 40-mile front, quickly toppled a handful of mud-and-bamboo French outposts. His main target was the French stronghold of Nghialo (which the Communists had tried vainly, a year ago, to wrest from the late great General De Lattre de Tassigny...
...paratroopers to the trouble spot. They were dropped on a hill post near Nghialo but were quickly surrounded. In a heroic, exhausting, five-day march over the high ridges, bypassing Communists in the valleys, they made their way to the Black River. They had started carrying their wounded on bamboo stretchers, but when the litter carriers had no strength left, the wounded were left to their fate. The battalion chaplain stayed behind with them...