Word: fengtai
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...What was rushing though her mind? "So many things," Finch says, leaning against a fence outside the Fengtai Softball Stadium, teammates and their families consoling each other behind her. Some of her comrades had already talked about no regrets, giving their all, 110%, a cadre of painful clichés. But about two hours after the game, the most famous softball player in history was ready to share the true pain...
...passengers a day, but even there the evening rush hour overcrowds every hall and stairway. One evening last week, in a welter of duffle bags and over-the-shoulder bundles, passengers hurrying to make the 6:30 to Hefei jostled against other travelers heading for the 6:40 to Fengtai. The four clocks outside the waiting-room doors said...
...Chinese Government at Nanking having telegraphed General Sung orders to resist the Japanese, the jittery Japanese Embassy in Peiping sent out a call for reinforcements to its guard. From Fengtai hastened 500 Japanese with machine guns and light artillery to Peiping's Chengyang Gate. The outer gate opened and in rushed about 250 Japanese. Suddenly the outer gate closed, trapping the Japanese between the outer and inner gates and the Chinese flung hand grenades among the trapped. With Japan roaring at this "treachery" and China as stubborn as ever there loomed this week the threat of fair-sized...
Meanwhile Japanese forces in North China had given notice of daytime maneuvers near Peiping. Savage shooting began at night and, according to a Chinese official communique: "The Japanese fired first after certain persons had fired on Japanese emerging from Fengtai barracks for night maneuvers around Wanpinhsien and Lu-kouchiao." These two centres soon saw pitched battles in which 16 Japanese and some 200 Chinese were killed, with Japanese artillery plunking poorly aimed shells, one of which landed in the empty bed of a local Chinese magistrate. Increasingly sharp fighting made it no clearer who were the "certain persons" who opened...
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