Word: yung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally, for those who end up about three in the morning with a dry feeling in their mouths, Chinatown will fix it with an Egg Foo Yung...
...rebels out of Sunchon, and chased them back into the rough, hilly country to the south. It was hard to tell friend from foe. Both loyal and rebel troops wore U.S. uniforms and carried U.S. weapons. Loyal troops finally put on white armbands. Said young Lieut. Colonel Kang Yung Noon: "What sadness that we had to fire our first bullets against our own brothers...
...coalition Government (i.e., a national council). Instead they suddenly proposed to discuss a cease-fire order through a three-man committee set up last January, dormant since June and now composed of General George Marshall, Communist Negotiator Chou En-lai and the National Government's General Hsu Yung-chang. By cease-fire the Communists meant the return to Communist control of all territory won by the Government in the past six weeks. They flatly declared that if the fighting were not stopped, and the Government persisted in its "unilateral" plans for a National Assembly in November, they would call...
China, racked by civil war, inflation and famine, took time out to honor an old U.S. custom-the beauty contest.* In Shanghai, Miss Wong Yung-mai, striking a traditional pose, was chosen Miss Shanghai 1946, in a contest staged to raise funds for famine relief. Contestants were selected for personality rather than physical charm. Bathing suits were ruled...
Invitation to Leave. At 5 p.m. that day Mayor Yung gave a banquet for Russians and Chinese. Many toasts were drunk; but a ghost sat at the groaning board. The Russians complained that the Chinese made many "transparent allusions" to the murder of Chinese Engineer Chang Hsin-fu, killed near Fushun last January. The Chinese believe the Russians were responsible. The Russians believe that Chinese Communists were guilty. Reported Chneider: "The Chinese kept telling us that they would guarantee our safety to Mukden, and then the Chinese would remind us that the Red Army gave the same pledge to their...