Word: vinegar
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Even though they have never lived in the U.S., the top men in the delegation are familiar with Americans. Chiao was a capable young aide of Chou En-lai's in the 1940s when Chou was dealing with such Yankee generals as "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell and George C. Marshall. Later, Chiao and his wife, who had been Chou's pretty press spokesman during World War II, were a popular couple in Hong Kong, where they represented Peking's news agency. At the 1961 Geneva Conference on Laos, where he was Chou's chief counselor, Chiao proudly...
...hands stationed in Chiang Kai-shek's wartime refugee capital, Chungking, as political officers on the staff of Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, who was commander of U.S. forces in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II. The pair chafed at the frustrating restraints imposed on "Vinegar Joe" by the generalissimo and his Nationalist regime, which they believed was fatally weak, unpopular and corrupt...
...Army Game. Nixon's vinegar-and-honey approach, which combined the troop call-up and carefully applied judicial pressure with a sincere willingness to negotiate, broke the back of the strike. Though the troops did little to reduce the Post Office backlog, the presence of uniformed (but unarmed) soldiers and military vehicles on the streets of New York convinced the nation and the strikers that the President meant business. To a great extent, the use of servicemen was psychological...
...Water Baby Dye Works. Most of the works is out of doors -which is almost necessary, because Annie uses lye and sodium hydrosulfite, resulting in fumes that make it necessary for her to cover her hair, wear rubber gloves and an apron, and douse herself thoroughly in vinegar at the end of a dyeing...