Word: kiukiang
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...dikes of the broad Yangtze still held, but the river had set new high water marks, was still rising. At Ichang, a record 100 ft. of water halted all upriver traffic through the famed gorges leading to Chungking; Hankow's suburbs were awash; Kiukiang's busy wharves lay submerged, and sampans instead of rickshas carried passengers through the streets...
Along the way, on Kiukiang Road, a bystander catcalled: "Rice worms! Rice worms!" They cuffed and kicked...
...Nanking and Kiukiang Roads, happy bankers were holding open house amid the excited bustle of guests, buffet lunch eons, congratulations and piles of flow ers sent by the city's many Chinese banks...
...foot in that plane unless I have a chute. I've made three emergency jumps and I'm going to have a chute or I am not going." We found him a parachute, stepped into the plane and were soon roaring off toward the Yangtze River and Kiukiang...
Ships appeared heading westward under a frantic head of steam, evidently trying to get away from Kiukiang before we could get there. A great ocean freighter went past under our wings. By now the boats were growing thicker. Great patches in the river seemed alive. We grew tense in our seats watching for the target, watching for rising planes, watching for ack-ack fire, peering up into the sky above us for Japanese Zeros...