Word: scorches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scorch Hankow? No sooner had Canton fallen than the Japanese announced their military timetable now called for the capture of Hankow by November 3", "The Sacred and Imperial Birthdate." This week, far ahead of schedule, the advance Japanese forces, behind a murderous airplane and artillery bombardment, hammered into Hankow. Chinese military heads, unwilling to stage a bloody last-ditch defense, abandoned the city, leaving squads behind to dynamite anything of value to the Japanese. Terrorized Chinese clamored at the barricades to Hankow's foreign areas as flames roared through the city. Generalissimo Chiang enplaned for a new military headquarters...
...attached, to be upped to a maximum of $300,000,000. Delegates were enthusiastic, if mystified, when Secretary Willie A. Lawson of the Arkansas Education Association declared: "We think that a government which . . . refused to consider permanent Federal aid is using us as a cat's-paw to scorch our fingers with the burning chestnuts of political favoritism...
...Scorched. Although the present Chinese Government professes to rule in the spirit of its late and sainted Dr. Sun Yat-sen's principles, not even Saint Sun's imposing granite tomb at Nanking nor the Saint's picture in every Chinese official's office deters Editor Woodhead from attempting to scorch...
...fair measure of frequency, it seems reasonable to suppose that every star becomes a nova at least once in the hundreds of billions of years of its life. If the Sun took its turn next year, next month or next fortnight, the start of the performance would promptly scorch every living thing on Earth to a crisp...
...scoop up lost heads of precious wheat, would drive the traveling locust on into Northern China. There he might get his wings soaked in torrents of crop-destroying rain, if he did not fly to Western China. There drought and the sun would drop him to earth at last, scorch him to death at 115°. But on his world junket the Argentine locust would have seen what sharp-eyed traders began to foresee last spring. There is not enough wheat growing in the fields of the world to feed all the people in the world...