Word: huang
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...last week the Mukden garrison was hanging on. They were even momentarily confident, largely because the expected Communist offensive was two months overdue. Ruddy-cheeked, pipe-smoking Commanding General Wei Li-huang thought perhaps the Reds had not replaced the losses suffered in last fall's attacks. But, though the Communist attacks were beaten off, it was at heavy cost: the Reds had captured foodstuffs which might have fed the city for 15 months...
...Huang Ti lived-and some Chinese scholars believe that he was just the personification of an era-it was from B.C. 2697 to 2595. Chinese credit him with the invention of armor and wheeled vehicles...
Some no miles away in Sian, Shensi's Governor Chu Shao-chou, unable to reach Huang Ti's tomb this year, led a Nationalist ceremony of "distant obeisance...
...last week it was a new broom, swung by ideologically irreverent hands, that cleared Huang Ti's hypothetical resting place. Communist General Peng Teh-huai's men, marching south from their Ichuan victory, had taken it. They turned the ceremony into a propaganda field...
...enough: "We come with fragrant flowers and sweet wine to pray. . . ." Then came the political snapper: "No matter how American imperialism exerts itself, the children of the Yellow Emperor will unite under the Chinese Communist Party and . . . thoroughly exterminate all of Chiang Kai-shek's gangsters." They wished Huang Ti's posterity "10,000 years, 1,000 autumns...