Word: jades
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celebrated and great city, very rich and respected, very wise and strong, [where the people] lived in fine palaces, some made of pure jade, some of silver, and some of emeralds without flaw...
...jade Tuxtla statuette from Mexico, earliest (98 B.C.) dated monument of the New World...
...also changed. No timid jade, once the job was his, he pushed Australian industry and manpower toward all-out effort. And he began to bellow at London...
...second son and Jade, this son's wife, went into the free West with students, while the people of the city, rich and poor alike, began to crowd past into the country. Sometimes Ling Tan "felt more sorry for the rich than the poor because the rich were so helpless and delicate and knew little of where to find food." But the peasants disguised their broad hats with branches, and stayed at their work. Ling Tan despised all those who made war; "it seemed to him that the greatest thing a man could do in these days...
...knife. The second smuggled in firearms from the hill-men, and killed only when he had to. The youngest killed for pure joy and found joy in nothing else. Ling Tan too, who had once been unable to see a chicken die, killed without feeling. His daughter-in-law, Jade, managed, by poisoning some ducks, to kill off Japanese banqueters in the city. At Ling Tan's signal, slouching and timid crowds of villagers would suddenly fall upon, murder and bury any small enough group of enemy troops...