Word: hs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after some advanced studies in Moscow and nine years in Jap prisons, she was tuberculous and no longer beautiful. But baggy-eyed, jug-eared Chinese General Chen Yi, looking back on the worst month of his Formosa governorship, would never forget the woman known as Hsieh Hsüeh-hung-Thanks Snow...
...organizing field to become Chief Clerk to Grand President Harrison of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks; another former Fellow, once a field representative, has been appointed the Georgia State Director for the Textile Workers' Union of America; another, formerly a member of the negotiation committee of hs local, has been made a full-time organizer; still another has been promoted from shop chairman to full time business agent...
Dallas. In a News editorial: "Mch hs bn wrttn abt rfrmed spllng as a savr of spc. Possbly ths wld b a gd pln. Bt it wld b a bttr pln if it wer carrd frthr. If a systm of abbrvtns wr adptd, as mch as 40 pct of spc cld b savd. ... It wldn't be so hrd as u mght thnk. U cn read...
Then four companies of Japanese attacked nearby Chinese barracks housing some 10,000 troops. The Chinese, who had orders from Young Marshal Chang Hsüeh-liang not to resist, retired. Other Jap companies marched into Mukden, three miles down the line. By morning they were in full possession and had started to persuade the world that China was a synonym for chaos and the setting up of puppet "Manchukuo" a regrettable necessity. It was Sept...
...Bloomingdale, The Mongoose. Gould tells what it took to make him: "old Yankee blood, an overwhelming aversion to possessions, four years of Harvard, and 25 years of beating the living hell out of my insides with bad hooch and bad food." Joe professes never to be without his "three Hs" - homelessness, hunger, hangovers. On winter nights he sports a layer of newspapers between his shirt and undershirt. He is 5 ft. 4, weighs 95 lb., and trims his cinnamon beard every other Easter. Twenty-six years ago he began a mysterious work- An Oral History of Our Time - a chronicle...