Word: nien
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tsaolaochi, a grey brick station-house with a mud-walled village behind it, Nationalist forces had just set up a forward headquarters. Under General Li Yen-nien, commander of the Sixth Army Group, two field armies, the 99th. and the 54th, about 50,000 strong, were pressing northwestward in an attempt to join hands with the Twelfth Nationalist Army Group at Suhsien, 25 miles away. In a battered G.M.C. ten-wheeler truck, we lurched after them...
...beat his way up to Nanking from Shanghai in a howling gale of antipathy and criticism. Huffiest & puffiest was still the wind of Fu Szu-nien. Chubby, nearsighted, greying Fu, respected scholar and independent liberal, had expanded his polemics against T.V. into three newspaper articles...