Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forced the Chinese to mark off five treaty ports. The British also seized the barren island they subsequently built up into the city of Hong Kong. In the War of 1856-60 further treaty ports were seized and the Chinese customs service handed over to foreign administration. After the Boxer Rebellion at the turn of the century, Western nations solidified their hold on further territorial concessions, forced indemnities and loans on China at heavy interest rates. The U.S. sanctimoniously used the "most-favored nation" clause in its treaties to take advantage of the privileges Britain gained. The treaty ports became...
...They splashed at us from behind and above and whipped past so close you could have snatched the swastika from their sides. Our ship was lurching under their wallops like a beaten boxer. One shell plowed into the top turret and went off in the face of the gunner, Technical Sergeant K. R. Aulenbach of Reading, Pa. Between attacks the crew dragged him out and laid him down for first aid but he was already gone; he died soon after we landed...
Stolz, a stylish young boxer, was rated the No. 1 challenger for Angott's crown. But the Beau, in his first appearance as a Garden headliner, punched him off his perch. After seven rounds of piston-like pounding reminiscent of Henry Armstrong's famed windmill attack, Stolz's left eye was bleeding so badly that the referee stopped the bout, awarded a technical knockout to the little brown upstart...
...State's press was solidly against him, he lost the support of many of his friends, including some potent labor leaders and dissatisfied Democratic Party workers. But after next Jan. 1, rich Culbert Olson can go back to his stately home in Los Angeles, where his German boxer dog Tony sits glumly on the white front porch, where the sheet music for his 1938 campaign song (He's Olson) still graces his grand piano...
Died. Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard, 74, veteran war correspondent, first U.S. political adviser to the Chinese Republic; in Seattle. He covered the Boer, Greco-Turkish, Spanish-American and Russo-Japanese wars, World War I, the Boxer Rebellion, and part of the Sino-Japanese war, helped found The China Press, first U.S. paper in Shanghai, and Millard's Weekly Review in Shanghai. More honest than discreet, he was a frequent critic of U.S. policy in China, a more strenuous critic of Japanese policy. He was adviser to the Chinese at the Paris Peace Conference, the League of Nations sessions from...