Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pat Hurley sent ahead no advance notices. As his transport circled Yenan's airport, the hinterland city of 40,000 went into a dither. First to greet the visitor was U.S. Army Observer Colonel David Dean Barrett, an old China hand, who was dressed in a faded, padded blue-cotton greatcoat over his woolen olive drab. General Hurley wore correct two-star uniform, complete with three rows of campaign ribbons, Mexican Aztec Eagle, White Eagle of Yugoslavia, D.S.C. (for gallantry in World War I) and U.S. Distinguished Service Medal with oakleaf cluster. Cracked the Colonel: "General, you have...
...Secretary Mao Tse-tung, Generals Chou Enlai, Chu Teh and Yeh Chien-ying. They sped to the airport in Mao's private car (a converted ambulance), ran pell-mell across the field to greet their American guest. As he had with the Russians in 1942, 1943 and 1944, Pat Hurley hailed them like long-lost friends...
They lined up for photographs. Pat Hurley reviewed a hastily assembled guard of honor. Bugles blared. General Hurley snapped to attention, saluted. Then he gave China's Communists the greeting that had wowed the Russians-the Choctaw war whoop he taught Red Army men at Stalingrad: "Yahoo...
Riding into the city in Mao's car, Pat Hurley unlimbered some of his best anecdotes. Colonel Barrett translated with idiomatic gusto. As the car forded the shallow Yen River, General Hurley cracked: "It reminds me of my old home in Oklahoma. There you could tell when a school of fish was swimming upriver by the cloud of dust it raised...
That night there was a great banquet, not only to toast the American but also to celebrate the anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Again, with telling effect, Pat Hurley bellowed his "Yahoo...