Word: chihli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foot. The Communists had cut the railroad line; no civilian airlines were operating; automobile travel was out; the National Defense Ministry had told correspondents to wait awhile. Gruin looked out of the office window and got his cue. Across the street lived affable, English-speaking General Chou Chih-jou, commander in chief of the Chinese air force. Gruin sent a note to the General, who was lunching at home, asking for an airlift for his men. Ten minutes later the General phoned to ask if they could leave that afternoon...
When it came to preaching to his army, his officials, and to a whole generation of students, Chiang seldom quoted the Bible. He stressed four old traditional ideas: Li ("regulated attitude"), I ("right conduct"), Lien ("honesty") and Chih ("integrity and honor"). Out of these came Chiang's "New Life Movement," which symbolized the new China; it included strictures against everything from bribery to wiping the nose on the sleeve...
Generalissimo Chiang, the only power still holding the Nationalist government together, had no illusions about his chances in a Communist-dominated coalition. Last week he conferred in Nanking with his top generals: Fu Tso-yi, whom he gave a completely free hand in the north, Chang Chih-chung, from the far northwest, and Pai Chung-hsi, from Hankow in Central China...
...picking over fish and vegetables and hopelessly asking prices. One squat, broad-faced woman, a tram conductor's wife, finally bought two cracked eggs for her family of five. What if prices went even higher? She answered resignedly, for all of China's badly used plain people: "Chih-hao ch'ihku" (We can only eat bitterness...
...such fickleness was scorned by Chen Chih-fong. He was disgruntled, but he staunchly said: "We must struggle within the party ranks. When we are alive we must live as Kuomintang men. When we die we must be Kuomintang ghosts...