Word: firewood
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...outside world, Fu ordered construction of an airstrip on the polo ground of the old legation quarter, in the heart of the city. Gangs of padded-gowned forced labor leveled telephone poles, trees and buildings on the approaches to the strip. Enterprising citizens dashed in to gather up precious firewood for their chilly hearths. Three days after construction began, two Chinese army cargo planes settled on to the perilously cramped runway. They were unable to take off again. Fu's airstrip seemed to be a one-way street...
...courtship and marriage short of caveman seizure. The boy picked his girl, left a goat in front of her father's hut and got his wife. No words spoken, no fuss, no marriage ceremony. And if the bridegroom was too poor to own a goat, a bundle of firewood did the trick...
...usual, the worst news continued to come from Manchuria. During the week the Communists stormed and captured the critical port city of Yingkow. The Reds boasted that the garrison had gone over to their side. In beleaguered Mukden itself, freezing citizens tore down walls and rafters for firewood...
Burned Up. In Tokyo, so many wooden grave markers were stolen for firewood that authorities posted signs warning of "definite punishment from heaven." The signs quickly went the way of all wood...
...Their cabin had been built for them by a onetime teacher at Opportunity School named Fred Wright Lundy. He had built himself a shack in Pinecliffe and the shack he put up for Emily was only about a mile away. He ran errands for the sisters, fetched their firewood, helped with the chores, ate most of his meals at Emily...