Word: liao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some cried openly over Lo Tsung-t'ung (President Roosevelt), the man who symbolized America's good will and her good help. A puzzled ricksha man asked: "But who killed him? Who killed him?" A peasant sadly shook his head: "Szu-te t'ai tsao liao!-It was too soon that he died." One Chinese driver turned to an American on an Army jeep, mustered all the English he possessed and said: "I am sorry...
...Feichi ch'a wan liao" ("The airplanes have finished bombing") an officer reports to the Chinese general. The general orders a ten-minute wait, hoping the Japs will poke their heads out of their dugouts to look for our infantry...
Meckel taught them the principles of Clausewitz, which they eagerly took over, revamped, stamped Made in Japan. After a victory at Liao-Yang in the Russo-Japanese War, Field Marshal Prince Iwao Oyama cabled Meckel: "We hope you are proud of your pupils...