Word: hai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Battle of Quemoy 1958 began early last August, when Chinese Nationalist reconnaissance pilots flying RF-84 jets over the Formosa Strait spotted Communist MIGs on two previously unoccupied airfields at Cheng-hai and Lien-cheng facing Formosa and the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. The evaluation: Red China, locked up inside its borders since the Formosa Strait crisis of 1954-55, was once more on the move in Asia. The confirmation: Red China's air force opened up a careful reconnaissance of Quemoy...
Last Angry Man. In Hong Kong, Yu Shui-ming, alias Pee Hai Por ("Leather Shoe Shop"), was asked by a judge to demonstrate how he earned his nickname, pulled off one of his shoes, flung it at the police officer who had arrested him for loitering...
...impression on the delegates to the annual meeting of the 21-nation Colombo Plan, the British-fostered scheme designed to help the backward nations of Southeast Asia. New paint gleamed everywhere. Old buildings and the sidewalks before them were scrubbed as clean as any in Amsterdam. Mayor Nguyen Phu Hai had sternly forbidden his citizens to spit in public or walk even partially naked in the streets. Energetic President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital had come a long way from the fear and misery of the days when every sidewalk café was guarded by heavy wire mesh from...
...site of the U.S. H-bomb test in the Pacific (TIME, March 29). The test released more energy than the scientists had anticipated; Aikichi and his crewmates were liberally sprinkled with the fine white dust of the blast, which the Japanese have since come to know as shi no hai (the ashes of death...
...casks, is so cheap that a big evening can cost just $1 - which is also the price of a savory dinner featuring flaming Haitian crayfish. The weather is good the year around, the scenery spectacular. Heroic history seems to hang in the air, especially in the north, around Cap-Hai-tien; it becomes almost tangible in the presence of the 3,000-lb. cannon, graved with the arrogant "N" of the Napoleon who lost them, in the gloomy gun galleries of the Citadel...