Word: erh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Erh-Lü-Tze. Everywhere on stone walls and cliffsides appears the four-syllable slogan coined by the government's able chief, Mao Tze-tung: "Move your own hands!" Meaning: "He who does not work shall not eat." A Border Region epithet is the term erh-lu-tze - loafer (literally, "she-donkey"). Communists say they once counted 70,000 loafers, that now there are only a few hundred. These diehards must wear a big white erh-lü-tze badge, are fair game for anyone's hoots and jeers. But this year an official thought up a subtler...
...nothing but promises. U.S. and British forces on the Burma fringe, U.S. airmen in China had done what they could for China (and for the Allied cause). Millions of U.S. dollars had been poured into China to provision the Fourteenth Air Force, bolster China's strained finance. But Erh Ch'i-July 7, the Double Seventh, the seventh day of the seventh month-would not be a happy day for the Chinese. It had not been a happy day since 1937, when the Japanese chose the Double Seventh to seize the Marco Polo Bridge near Peiping, begin...