Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...importance of this quick campaign was not military. The importance lay in the timing. The campaign seriously interfered with the spring plantings of rice and cotton in one of China's too-few fertile basins. Most significant act of the hit-&-run attackers was their blasting of the dikes of Tungting Lake, flooding a huge area west of the lake. China has a phrase to express the futility of invading a land where the invader is allowed to pass and then is swallowed up: "plowing water." The Japanese at Tungting Lake lent the phrase a sinister new meaning...
...nudges, not by a cataclysmic and continued onslaught of bombs and fire and death. The U.S. saw its returned heroes, excellently groomed, limping a little, surrounded by silk-stockinged chorus girls; the British saw their maimed husbands and sons crutching through the streets, smiling chins up, surrounded by cotton-stockinged nurses...
...tons of cotton; and Spain could expect "a very noticeable increase...
...York greybeard ordered the whole stock of suits a Fifth Avenue firm had in his size. Another man tried to buy all the size-32 shorts in a store. A girl bought 27 pairs of white cotton gloves...
...consulate in Java, wandered through Borneo and India; he had worked for the New York Herald Tribune, the Associated Press (in Washington, London) and for the New York newspaper PM (London Moscow, the Middle East, India); he had written three books praised by critics; the latest: Red Hills and Cotton, published in 1942. Last week, newly rehired by the New York Herald Tribune, he was on his way to London. He was the second Herald Tribune man lost in this war (the first, Ralph Barnes, died in a plane crash in Yugoslavia...