Word: keng
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the north shore seven hours before the deadline set by the ultimatum for unconditional surrender. At 11 p.m., an hour ahead of schedule, shock troops jammed onto river craft and struck across in a vast envelopment on both sides of Nanking. One field army under General Chen Keng took Tikang, 80 miles southwest and upriver from the Nationalist capital. Other forces under General Chen Yi poured across 35 and 65 miles east and downriver from Nanking, snatched the river port of Chinkiang and the river fort at Kiangyin, whose big guns were silent...
Last week that picture was dark and doubtful. Along the east-west Lunghai Railway the government suffered its great est loss. Twenty thousand Communists under General Cheng Keng fought their way for the second time into Loyang, a major Nationalist bastion in Honan...
Subcommittee Setback. Truculent Kuomintang fundamentalists seized the initiative in some of the subcommittees set up to study the draft constitution. Their most fiery leader was goat-bearded Kung Keng, 73, who discourses mystically and interminably on the relationship between chuan and neng-power and ability. Kung Keng said that these concepts were properly defined only in the specific constitutional directives of Kuomintang Founder Sun Yatsen. A tired Young China partyman disrespectfully shouted: "This is no place for orations." Kung Keng, who looks like a medieval wizard, but has a long revolutionary record, paled with anger. His supporters hurled abuse...
Chen Cheng took command. He persuaded the hysterical delegate to sit down. From across the aisle old Kung Keng snarled: "Watch your tongue!" The Manchurian popped up again, screamed: "Democracy!" After its fashion, that's what...