Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prospect of peace was as diverse as the provinces of China (see map). Noodle-eating Northerners, the tall, rugged people of the Yellow River region, were going back to their cool villages and towns. In Peiping they would eat onions again, fondle walnuts in their palms, see the Temple of Heaven and the old lacquered palaces, bring their songbirds to street corners in the afternoons...
Questions & Answers. Anxious, hopelessly confused, Jane decided to take the night train to David's country home. The London station was packed with weary soldiers, sailors, workmen, mothers and children. A friendly corporal appeared out of the yellow fog, and helped Jane through the milling crowd...
...that the Communists spoke for 100,000,000 Chinese; next day the figure soared to 260,000,000 (a year ago it was 80,000,000). Communist troops pushed into Inner Mongolia and Manchuria, neared Peiping and Tientsin. It looked as if control of all China north of the Yellow River was the Communist goal...
When the first news came to the fighting fronts, G.I.s yelled wildly, pounded backs, fired guns, drank hoarded whiskey. On Okinawa the night was lighted by millions of tracer bullets as men fired rifles, machine guns, antiaircraft guns. Green and yellow flares glared in the darkness. Ships offshore, fearing a Kamikaze attack, laid down a smoke screen, opened up with antiaircraft guns. Veterans had seen nothing like it during the whole battle for the islands. The celebration had tragic consequences : six men were killed, 30 wounded...
...South of the Great Wall, in China proper, an army of 900,000 had been slightly reduced by withdrawals to the north. But the enemy still held the basins of the Yellow and Yangtze rivers, the mouth of the West River, and most of the great ports fronting on the China seas-Canton, Hong Kong, Amoy,'Swatow and Hangchow-around to Shanghai and the Yellow...