Word: yu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mukden, after studiously ignoring him for about four months, Communist officials finally paid some attention to white-goateed Consul General Angus I. Ward, 56. The Reds arrested him and four members of his staff. The charge: beating up a discharged Chinese employee, one Chi Yu-heng, after he had demanded severance pay. The entire population of Mukden, the Communist radio reported, was demanding punishment for "this savage and brutal act perpetrated by American imperialists." Ward has not been allowed to communicate with Washington since his arrest...
...between getting bills ready for Congress (see below) and holding a reception for 128 foreign diplomats and wives in Blair House, Harry Truman found time for a list of visitors ranging from ten Blue Star Mothers to Roman Catholic Archbishop Yu-pin of Nanking. A delegation from the American Radio Relay League dropped by, another from the National Association of Postmasters. The President gave a group of Colgate University students a brief lecture on honesty in politics, and then handed each of them a pen which said, "I swiped this from Harry S. Truman...
...Midwesterners tend to obscure their vowels by pronouncing their R's too heavily," Packard parried, but he admitted that the local "pak-yu-ca-in-Havud-Yad" variation ignores the "R" too much...
Commander-in-Chief Liu Shih flew down to the grey-walled rail town of Pengpu on the Huai's south bank, to set up a new operational base. Deputy Commander Tu Yu-ming led the march overland with three "army groups" (about 110,000 combat troops), commanded by Generals Li Mi, Chiu Ching-chuan and Sun Yuan-liang. The leader of a fourth army group, General Huang Po-tao, was left a suicide on the field where his 90,000 men had been encircled and cut to pieces. Behind the withdrawing Nationalists, over Suchow's blasted ammunition dumps...
Many, however, were already fleeing. On a train from Tientsin to Peiping, I noticed a freight train headed the other way toward the port, bearing three shiny new automobiles. A young, black-uniformed railway guard watched the cars pass. "Yu-chien-ti tu pao" (Have-money people all run), he observed...