Word: taichow
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Military planes came anyway. A French B-24 flew from Viet Nam and began circling the scene. From carrier decks roared eight U.S. Navy Skyraiders convoying a Philippine-based Air Force amphibian. The Reds, bustling about 100 yards away on tiny Taichow Island, did nothing as the U.S. amphibian, with fighter cover circling overhead, landed on the water, loaded the survivors and flew them off to a Hong Kong hospital...
Chen's wife next day went to see her husband. She knew that he could not rest quietly in the good earth without his head. Tucking a wash basin and a bottle of alcohol under her arm, she trudged off to Japanese headquarters at Taichow. From a Japanese officer she demanded the head of her husband. The officer refused...
...Taichow in the Province of Chekiang, a living frog in a glass jar was paraded through the streets. On all sides people kowtowed, prayed to the frog for rain...
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