Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Central Government troops, preceded in the North China port of Chin-wangtao by U.S. marines, met strong Communist resistance when they tried to march beyond the Great Wall into Manchuria. The Government troops skirmished fell back and waited for reinforcements...
...Communist forces along the Great Wall were part of the famed Eighth Route Army. After taking over the ancient crossroads city of Kalgan, some 215 miles inland from Chinwangtao, and making it the capital of a new border government, the Eighth turned its energies to Manchuria. A Communist spokesman blandly explained that the Russians, observing the letter of their treaty obligations in Manchuria, had forbidden the Eighth to enter -as an army. But the Russians had welcomed Communist "civilians." Said the spokesman: "There is a possibility that these civilians armed the people." In any event, strong Communist forces were grouped...
Below the Great Wall. South of the Great Wall, the great old cities of commerce and culture, which mean so much to all Chinese, were solidly in Central Government hands. U.S. air forces had just finished transporting Chungking's Ninety-Fourth Army from Shanghai (see ARMY & NAVY) to Peiping, the stately northern capital. Twenty-five thousand U.S. marines were in Tientsin, where they had accepted the Japanese surrender...
...first few days of his incumbency, Captain Wellings noticed a dirty wall (or "bulkhead") and immediately ordered all the V-12ers and NROTCs to scrub the walls and floors ("decks," dammit) of the dorm ("ship") in which they were quartered. This was just before exams, and it didn't help final grades...
...wall...