Word: opened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...below. Bad Boy began acting silly. He dropped a dime and called down, "Call the cops." One of the men picked up the dime, said: "This will get me a cup of coffee." Bad Boy got crazy mad. He reached back, got a .22 rifle, aimed it out the open window, killed one of the men below...
Spurred by fiery Liu Pu-ting, the Legislative Yuan's most outspoken critic of the government, 120 Nanking professors drafted open letters to Chiang and Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung. "People throughout the country," the professors wrote, "are praying for an early return of peace ... It is time to save the country's last remaining breath . . . Peace negotiations should be resumed for the formation of a multi-party coalition government...
...MacWilliams of the Chinese National Aviation Corp., formerly a U.S. Navy search pilot, spiraled the plane down to 200 feet and leveled off to drop our 11,000-lb. cargo of rice. Six soldiers, moving stiffly in heavily padded khaki uniforms, wrestled the 50-lb. rice bags to the open hatch, tumbled them out and watched them land in tiny puffs of dust in a walled compound near the field...
Back at the airstrip, our escorts fidgeted nervously and kept glancing at the Communist-held hills as darkness settled down. As we winged back through the night, the wind from the open hatch spun the dust on the floor in a whirlpool, picked up a small cardboard tag torn off a shipping crate. The tag told the poignant story of the rapidity of China's retreat: It said: "To Mukden...
...execution took place in the furnace room of a hat factory. Wearing a grey business suit and black bowler hat, Rouault stood by the open furnace door, tossed each painting singly into the flames. Now and then he would pause to pronounce one of them "not so bad," but in an hour and a half every picture (some worth up to $2,000) was reduced to ashes. Driving back to Paris in his lawyer's black limousine, Rouault looked overcome with gloom. "Bad or not," he said, "they were my children...