Word: mings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...qualified observers agreed that the last forlorn hope for successful U.S. mediation between Nationalist and Communist forces had all but vanished. On the northern shore of Shantung peninsula, rifles sang and mortars whispered as Nationalist troops besieged Communist Chefoo. Across the Yellow Sea in Manchuria, Lieut. General Tu Li-ming's Government armies were clearing out the peninsula south of captured Antung, preparing for the climactic drive on Harbin (see map). In that target city and in the now-isolated Red capital of Yenan, there was no observance of Chiang Kai-shek's natal...
Hwaiyin (southeast of Kaifeng) also fell to Government forces, while Harbin was menaced by General Tu Li-ming's advancing troops, who were spoiling for a fight in Manchuria "before the snow flies." Along the border of Russian-occupied Korea, Government soldiers were preparing a drive on Antung, "funnel for delivery of foreign [i.e., Russian] supplies to the Communists...
Frederick Wildes Adams, Jr., Irwin Monroe Arias, Walter Robert Beer, Jr., Francis Robert Buckley, Allan Churchill Butler, George Chi-Ming Chen, Edward Cranch Eliot, Carmine Mario Fasano, George Harry Foote, Irwin Bertram Green, Crosby Hitchcock, Thomas Joseph Hughes, Jr., Robert Leon Jenkins, Robert Henry Lautz, David Delamater Mackintosh, George Seward Might, Arnold Whitcomb Morse, James Roland Patterson, Jr., James Stenius Roberts, Ralph Dudley Sanderson, Ralph Henry Vogel, Richard Saltonstall West, William Fryer Wicks, Theodore Henry Woggon, James Joshua Zimmerman...
...would instruct the Young Marshal and recommend more books. Mo complied. Now Chang is reading The Modern History of China, History of Indo-China, History of Manchuria, and (as a reminder that even the most vigorous dynasties must have an end) The Sad Tales of the End of the Ming Dynasty...
...Suffer the Children." I visited three Kalgan factories with a serene revolutionary, Professor Lin Tse-ming, onetime biologist at Peiping's U.S.-sponsored Yen-ching University and now Director of Studies at North China Union University. They were clean and running smoothly...