Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Job. For pure cussedness none of them had ever seen anything like the job they had to do. The Army was everywhere, from Fort Dix to Chungking, from Reykjavik to Port Darwin. Country boys in khaki, with the hayseed barely combed out of their hair, soldiered at Khorram Shar...
John Hersey, who speaks Chinese almost as well as English and knows what it's like to be bombed in Chungking . . . Sherry Mangan, who held down the Paris office all through the fall of France, then spent a year in the Buenos Aires office.
Country's Man. "Let them come," the Gissimo said in the summer of 1940, when Chungking morale reached an all-war low, "let them drive me back into Tibet. In five years I will be back here and I will conquer all China again."
The Japanese appeared to be making rapid progress today in their campaign to clear major Chinese forces from the great Canton-Hankow-Shanghai triangle of southeast China and it was obvious that the position of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's harassed government in Chungking was becoming increasingly difficult.
Chungking reported Sunday that heavy fighting was continuing in coastal Chekiang province, southeast of Shanghai, following the Japanese capture of the provisional provincial capital and key communications center, Kinhwa, and claimed that the Japanese had won their victories only by using "poison gas."