Word: sino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peking's alliance with Moscow was formally announced in February 1950 when Party Leader Mao and Premier Chou negotiated at the Kremlin a 30-year Sino-Soviet friendship pact in which the two nations promised 'in a spirit of sincere cooperation . . . to participate in all international actions aimed at insuring peace [and to] consult each other in regard to all important international problems...
...Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury put her to work as a cub reporter. In 1937, when she was taking pictures in Korea, the Japanese clapped her in jail as a spy, but let her go after a small fine. Four years later, as a reporter for N.E.A., she covered the Sino-Japanese war and scored a worldwide beat with her pictures and eyewitness account of the Japanese use of poison gas in the battle of Ichang...
Crows & Bombing Planes. In 1895, after its defeat in the Sino-Japanese War, China was forced to cede Formosa to Japan. Admiral Viscount Kabayama, appointed Japan's first governor general, sailed down to Formosa in triumph, released from his flagship as a sign of victory a pair of crows. Their descendants still make Formosan daybreaks raucous...
...mistake should be made about the quality of Ho's regular forces. They are well disciplined, and in five years of war they have learned much from their adversaries, the French. For months, arms and ammunition from China have leaked through the mountain paths that riddle the Sino-Tonkinese frontier. The regular Communist battalions now have as much firepower as their French equivalents...
...were war veterans. Richards, 56, a white-haired, restless oldtimer, had been on & off the firing line ever since (at 22) he covered Pershing's expedition against Pancho Villa for the old Denver Morning World. Later, Richards worked for newspapers in Honolulu, Tokyo and Shanghai, and covered the Sino-Japanese war. A onetime assistant city editor of Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner, Richards was its Washington correspondent when he took leave last fall to go to Korea as a special adviser on international affairs to President Syngman Rhee. He was planning to come home as war broke...