Word: wu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hare, Miles Harvard Overholt, Jr., Vincent Leonard di Salvatore Pasciuto, Donald Dunham Perry, James Henry Reynolds, Jr., Joseph Crawford Scott, Thomas Warren Sears, Jr., William Joseph Shea, Morris Victor Shelanski, Robert Breckenridge Sherwood, Harold Jules Sigoloff, Thaxter Parks Spencer, Howard Edwin Upson, Morton Waldstein, Thurston Wood, Ching Pel Wu...
...deserted Chang Tso-lin to join with Wu Pei-fu, war lord rival of Chang Tso-lin. He rejoined Chang Tso-lin and served as Minister of War at Peking. As control changed, he went back to Wu and served as Minister of Industry in Wu's Cabinet. Before the year was out he deserted Wu, made peace again with Chang Tso-lin and became governor of the Harbin district in Manchuria. He was there when Chiang Kai-shek marched into Nanking and consolidated his Nationalist Government. Most of the other war lords joined Chiang then. But not Chang...
...gorge of the Wu-ti Ho the Japanese began to move. The rains had ended in Burma and Yünnan Province; the steamy, pestilential countryside was drying out. The Japs appeared to be launching their long-expected attack, creeping toward China's back door...
...Wu-ti Ho (the bottomless river) is the Salween, which curls for 200 miles through the mountains of Yünnan. Along its west bank the Japanese had nurtured themselves, gathering their strength. Near Tengyueh they struck. Three columns, altogether some 6,000 veteran troops, swung north and east with the apparent intention of outflanking Chinese troops scattered along the Burma Road...
...soldiers have clung to the east bank of the malaria-infested Salween (TIME, Dec. 7). For months they have guarded the pocked and broken upper half of the Burma Road which still belongs to them. In the first few days of the fighting in the gorge of the Wu-ti Ho last week they turned back the prongs of the Jap advance...