Word: tu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese Communist armies had the initiative in Manchuria. Moving down from the north, they cut the railway that connects the Manchurian capital, Changchun, with Government strongholds farther south. Then the Communists advanced toward Changchun itself. Inside the city, spruce, gimlet-eyed General Tu Yu-ming, Government commander for all Northeast China, tried to decide whether the Communists were out to capture Manchuria's capital or only worry...
Paratrooper General. Youngish (44) General Tu, who sometimes wears a brown stocking cap at headquarters to keep his straight, black hair trained back, had his detractors. Manchurian deputies shouted in Nanking that the Communists were making headway because Tu's officers were busy dealing in opium and loafing in dance halls. But General Tu had shown great ability in beating the Communists to control of southern Manchuria 18 months ago. Now he hoped to keep it from them...
...Peking, Yen gathered a large and loyal group of scholars, then traveled from village to village, setting up "people's schools." The people were eager to learn. "They appreciated tu-shu (reading)," says Yen, "but they never dreamed they could...
Hsieh Chin, also a statesman, fell into imperial disfavor, was made drunk and entombed under a bank of snow. Tu Fu admired his own admirable verse so much that he recommended it for malarial fever. Fang Shu Shao, knowing his time had come, got into his coffin and wrote: "My pen and ink shall go with me inside my funeral hearse, so that if I've leisure 'over there' I may soothe myself with verse...
...York Rangers, 0-0. During a melee around the Ranger cage, in slid the puck. But the goal was disallowed; the referee had blown his siffleur (whistle). "Sacré maudit!" (damn it all) groaned the fans, holding their heads in agony. Cried one to the referee: "Gros jambon, tu pues!" (you big ham, you stink...