Word: ho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Tiehling to Hsinmin it is two days, via Mukden, where, as refugees note, "faces are bitter and prices even higher than in Changchun." At Hsinmin the Nationalist lines end again. South of that rail city lies the most terrible san-pu-kuan stretch of all, the notorious Liu Ho Ko, or Willow River Ditch. This no man's land belongs to bandits who dress in yellow jackets and black pants, carry white knapsacks and oiled-paper umbrellas. They lie in wait along a willow-lined ditch, jump up with drawn revolvers, shout, "Don't make trouble! Hand...
...General Ho Ying-chin...
...Indo-China, the French were still embroiled in a war (anything but cold) with the "independent" republic of Viet Nam, headed by brilliant, Moscow-trained Ho Chi Minh (he who enlightens). To counteract Ho, they unveiled a new Viet Namese regime of their own under General N'Guyen van Xuan (pronounced soon), which this month was ceremoniously recognized aboard a French cruiser while a band blared and planes roared overhead. Ho was unimpressed. Said he last week: "The only way to gain our freedom is to continue to fight...
Next, the Gimo turned to General Ho Ying-chin, staunch antiCommunist, former war minister and chief of staff. While a Chinese representative at U.N. last year, General Ho had attended a Buchmanite meeting at Niagara Falls.* Friends said that he was a changed man. But, even fortified by moral rearmament, General Ho was not anxious for the headaches of the premiership...
...dusk. Over at the rival Hearst Call-Bulletin, the column seemed to stir memories. Leafing through files, the Hearstlings found an April 23 piece by A.P. Columnist Hal Boyle-on the moods of Manhattan at dawn and dusk. They reprinted the columns side by side, under the heading HO HUM. Sample quotes...