Word: tientsin
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...bomb-scarred Linhsi after the first U.S. foray into North China. Said he: "It's going to be a cold winter in Japan." Riding huge four-motored Consolidated Liberators, Chennault's bombers had struck hard at Linhsi's Kailan coalfields. Those mines, 75 miles northeast of Tientsin, yield one-third of China's normal coal production, furnish much fuel for Japan's heavy industries and domestic heating...
...boss was fiery, bombastic Smedley D. Butler, famed soldier-orator of the last generation (TIME, June 20, 1927). Vandegrift served with Old Gimlet Eye at Leon and Coyotepe Hill in Nicaragua; landed with him at Veracruz; fought with him in Haiti; helped pacify the Chinese Nationalists in Shanghai and Tientsin, in the late '20s. Through these years he was the apple of Old Gimlet Eye's eye, and earned himself the nickname of Sunny...
...through their President, officially cited Wake's Marines for "devotion to duty and splendid conduct at their battle stations. . . ." And Wake went down in the Corps's history with its other bright stars -the battle of the Bon Homme Richard against the Serapis, Tripoli, Trenton, Chapultepec, Samar, Tientsin, Belleau Wood, Blanc Mont, other bloody fields in every part of the world where Marines have fought and died...
Incoming passengers on the American liner watched the planes swoop down over Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field, commended the U.S. Navy's thoughtfulness in staging a big-scale war game on Sunday morning. An American automobile salesman, en route to Tientsin, gawked admiringly as a bomb whooshed into the harbor a scant 100 yards away: "Boy! What if that had been a real one?" The perspiring ship's officer who finally broke the bad news flubbed his lines: "It seems there's a state of undeclared war between Honolulu and the United States...
June 19, 1939. Tension at the foreign concession in Tientsin reached a climax after Japan's troops had erected live-wire barricades around the British and French Concessions. Japanese slapped the faces of several British women, stripped others...