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...defenders. The foreigners, mostly British, Russians and Americans, had little ammunition; they did have food (mostly pony meat), champagne from the legation cellars, water, and the certain knowledge that defeat meant death by torture. The grim defense showed the Boxers to be paper tigers. Though the peasants screamed, "Sha, sha [Kill, kill]," they left most of the fighting to the Empress' 6,000-man force of Moslem cavalry. As the siege dragged on. the Boxers posted rewards for dead foreigners-50 taels ($35) for a male. 40 for a female, 30 for a child. Only three rewards were collected...
...That A Sha...
...into Hong Kong with an escort of twelve Royal Air Force Vampire jets. Hong Kong roared back with a 19-gun salute. Later, in a police outpost only 200 yards from the Hong Kong-Red China border, the Vice President spotted a Communist flag flapping above the village of Sha Tau Kok. Nixon wanted to cross over to the village for a quick look-see, but his guides discouraged...
...Sha-hou!" cries the hawksman as he sends his bird aloft. Some such command rang through the woodlands of Assyria 3,000 years ago, and carried down the Middle Ages. Every king had his eagles, every earl his peregrines, and even a knave might fly a kestrel. They brought pigeon and duck to the table, and sport to the afternoon...
Comes Jazz (Columbia) includes such favorites as Shim Me Sha Wabble, That Da-Da Strain and At the Jazz Band Ball, torn off with good Dixieland sound by such alumni of Chicago's North Side as Bud Freeman, Eddie Condon, Jack Teagarden and Pee Wee Russell...