Word: loess
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dust. For a decade Yenan's loess caves had generated the trained personnel and the gospel of Red China. Young Communists of other Asiatic lands (including Sanzo Nozaka, brains of the Japanese party) had sheltered and studied there. In remote corners of Asia, the faithful would hear of the fall of Yenan with something of the inner shock that word of the fall of Mecca might bring to the Moslem world...
...deep winters and stormy summers passed, the loess (heavy deposit of windblown dust) gradually washed and gullied away. Nertha, too, changed. She suffered Pier and worked for him. At last she became barren, apathetic, shrewish. When Teo, their little boy, was six, he was already doing a man's work. But despite Teo's help, Pier had to mortgage the farm again. Pier was hardworking and resourceful, but he was also bullheaded. In the early '303, he refused to join his neighbors in the New Deal's corn and hog program. In 1936, the great dust...
Through the golden-green wheatfields of Honan Province, the twelfth longest river in the world ran sluggishly thick with yellowish silt from the loess lands of China's northwest. On its soggy banks last week coolies toiled with hand and basket, shovel and wheelbarrow, pitting their sweat-shiny muscles against the river. Near Kaifeng dikes were rising to replace those destroyed in 1938 by the Chinese when they scorched the earth in the path of the Jap invaders. Before the dikes were opened the river had flowed northeastward into the Pohai Gulf. Afterward, it turned southeastward and ran into...
Yenan's loess cave dwellings were rapidly emptying. For the second time in a decade, China's Communists were shifting their center of political gravity. In 1934-35 they had staged their famed Long March of 8,500 miles from Central China to the remote Northwest; of 100,000 marchers an exhausted 20,000 survived to set up headquarters at Yenan. Now, more powerful than ever, the Communists were heading north and east to Kalgan...
Yenan, the capital (pop. 25,000), is a city of caves cut in tiers in the loess slopes. One of its cave hospitals has eight stories. Its university (enrollment: 2,000) is a labyrinth of classrooms and dormitories...