Word: lao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather last week came to the aid of Allied forces in southwestern China. It was bitter weather, and it brought new suffering to ill-clad, undernourished lao ping (China's G.I. Joe). But it also gave China's armies a priceless gift of time. The enemy was trying to stabilize his positions after being driven back down the Kweiyang-Liuchow road and railway, clear out of Kweichow Province. At week's end, the two armies were digging into the frozen ground around Hochih...
...Philosophy. But all is not laughter with Elsa, who claims she is really two people. Her other self is intensely "interested in profound philosophy " and feels that through her column she can bring an understanding of authors like Rousseau, Freud, Lao-Tse, and Tolstoy to many people who might never otherwise get to know them. In the same way, she declares, her parties are really organized to bring intellects together in an informal atmosphere. She is proud of having invented such games as Treasure Hunt and Scavenger Hunt, because of their psychological importance. Not unmindful of science (she once devoted...
...Chinese lost Hengyang (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), but last week they had better news than a military victory. For a bumper rice crop-in some provinces the best in 40 years-China's peasants gave thanks to Lao Tien Yieh, Old Father Heaven...
Slowly the Chinese units fell back. To the battlewise lao ping, China's G.L, it was clear: he had not the strength to halt the enemy, nor the air support which he enjoyed in the battles in the south. Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth had no good bases in the north...
...Lao Ping (Old Soldier), the Chinese equivalent of the U.S. Army's G.I. Joe, is a husky, shaven-pated peasant who has learned the tricks of silent deployment, timely retreat, ingenious ambuscade. But China's armies are defensive, their determination is only to hold on until Allied help comes. Many of Japan's 400,000 troops in China proper are overage, battle-green. Picked, raw units are sometimes sent to China for battle training, often initiate minor battles to get this training. But in general the debilitating psychological effect of the stalemate...