Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese coast, 100 miles from Formosa, the Red Seamen's Union had mobilized a million tons of wooden shipping, rebuilt junks as landing craft...
...next minute, without warning, the rain may be hurtling down, leaving no one in the streets except the cycle-drivers. Wearing only hats, shorts and wooden sandals, they seem not to mind the drenching as they push their armchair rickshas with their bicycles...
...harvested. Heart of the South is Seoul, which lies among granite hills overlooking the lordly Han River. The Japanese built wide avenues and modern buildings in Seoul's westernized center, but most of the city's side streets are unpaved alleys bordered by drab wooden shops. Even in the city's center men in western business suits brush elbows with ragged coolies...
...strategically unrewarding." And the U.S. had obligingly made public this decision, thus undermining the Chinese Nationalist government in its back-to-the-wall stand on Formosa (see "The U.S. Tragedy in Formosa"). To take Formosa, the Chinese servants of the Kremlin had assembled a million tons of wooden shipping around the mainland port of Amoy. They were ready to attack the island. Target date for the invasion: June...
Relaxed in a wooden armchair at Chartwell, his 300-acre Kentish estate, Winston Churchill chewed his ubiquitous cigar and watched his tractors at work, while Anthony Eden, No. 2 man of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, carefully arranged his well-tailored frame on the grass beside his host...