Word: pao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...westward to hold the Szechuan passes. An urgent call to roly-poly Governor Ma Hung-kwei of Ninghsia Province brought him two divisions of tough Moslem caval ry. In one of the Nationalists' few well-executed maneuvers, the Reds were boxed by superior force and fire power near Pao-chi, a river crossing on the way to Szechuan...
...Back." In the midst of the affair, a Peiping newspaper, Hsin Min Pao, drew a moral...
Miss Li & Miss Liu. Loudspeaker trucks blared through the streets of Nanking and other large cities. Walls were pasted with purple and yellow posters proclaiming the virtues of candidates; across one a skeptic had scrawled "tsui niu" (bull-thrower). "Ward and block bosses," commented Nanking's Hsin Min Pao, "go to so many feasts they have stomachaches every day." But this time the Kuomintang made good its promise that seats guaranteed to minor parties should indeed go to minor parties. To teach party discipline on other matters, Kuomintang leaders cracked the whip...
Shanghai's Shun Pao distributed an unusual circular "To Our Dear Readers." It said: "Since all readers of our newspaper are excellent, refined citizens, we are willing to recommend our leader Mr. Pan Kung-chan. . . . Our slogan is: Every reader of Shun Pao in Shanghai will please vote for the editor of Shun Pao, Mr. Pan Kung-chan...
...Live in Peace (Lux-Pao; Times Film). The little village seemed to have been mislaid among the hills by careless History until the war of 1944 A.D. To Live in Peace records, in a high-keyed eclogue, one villager's confrontation of History...