Word: safes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cozy Concept. For months, the JCS hopefully contended that the Communist conquest of China constituted no immediate threat to U.S. security in the Pacific; Japan was the U.S.'s bastion and it was safe in MacArthur's hands. MacArthur himself now blasted this cozy concept. In the north, the Russians had always been in position to attack the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaido from Vladivostok and their bases in the Kurils. The southward plunge of Chinese Reds now threatened to give Russia domination of the China coast down to Shanghai...
...ruins sat Fang Hu-shih, a wrinkled grandmother bundled in a black padded jacket and trousers. Her silver earrings danced back & forth as she rocked in silent grief. Yesterday at the height of the fighting she had hobbled on her tiny bound feet a mile away to a safe spot in the fields. Behind her now lay the ashes of her hut and strawrick. Had she saved anything? Tears ran down her soot-stained cheeks. She moaned: "All lost, all lost...
Those who could followed the government's lead. Nanking's exits were choked day & night by streams of carts and automobiles heading for open country. Chinese riverboat captains no longer even dared let down their gangplanks at Nanking. From a safe distance offshore, they threw ropes to as many passengers as they could haul aboard. After the sinking of the overloaded SS Kiangya (see below), the military finally stepped in and took over all transportation facilities...
...instead of two and get listeners, it's a silly business to be in anyway." And what about death & taxes? "You wind up being a sieve for the Treasury Department . . . All you're working toward is a coffin, and I never saw one with a built-in safe...
...club met in Leverett House that night and chalked a magic circle on the floor. They drew cabalistic signs on the walls and in the air, following an ancient recipe. Everyone stood on the circle, for it wasn't safe to be outside. Accord- ing to the script, all this should make the devil appear, usually in the form of a goat or a butterfly...