Word: sampan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the American fleet arrived at the end of the war, Blumenthal hired a sampan and sailed out to greet the ships. He received a U.S. visa in 1947 and settled in San Francisco. He recalls: "I had no commitments, no obligations, no money−nothing but opportunity." He made the most of it. To put himself through the University of California at Berkeley, he worked as a janitor, a movie ticket taker, a stagehand, a casino shill. After graduation, he enrolled in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. Within five years, he earned three...
...whole operation had gone better "than we had any right to expect." According to the Defense Department, 1,373 Americans and 5,680 South Vietnamese-many more than the U.S. had originally intended-had been removed. Another 32,000 desperate Vietnamese had managed to make their way by sampan, raft and rowboat to the U.S. ships offshore, bringing to about 70,000 the number evacuated through the week...
...Nixons, who will probably stay as do most Western VIPs at a government guest house overlooking West Lake, will find the ambience somewhat different. In 1921, a group of young intellectuals from Shanghai met secretly on a sampan on nearby South Lake to organize the Chinese Communist Party. Today, the only people in Hangchow visibly intent on bodily pleasure are the shadowboxers who materialize in the lakeside parks to exercise every morning...