Word: outbreaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war, the Chinese completed the great Canton-Hankow Railway, linking South and Middle China-1,095 kilometers of arterial steel. To delay the Japanese advance, China's defenders wrecked much of the precious railroad. They dynamited one or two major bridges, collapsed five tunnels by exploding TNT-laden trains inside them, sent 95% of the line's equipment rolling off into the Kweichow gorges, where it still rusts. The Japanese never fully repaired this damage, never ran a train between Canton and Hankow...
...Taranto, Italy, UNRRA quickly suppressed an outbreak of bubonic plague...
...remarried the count. Shortly afterward he, too, was found dead, stabbed in the back with 19 knife thrusts. Investigation failed to involve Marga (though two French officers who had cast doubt on her testimony charged that she later tried to run over them in her car). Just before the outbreak of World War II, Marga turned up in a French villa close to the Spanish border. Newspapers hinted that she was trafficking with the Nazis. But after the Nazi occupation, Marga went to North Africa. There rumors connected her with British and French secret operations...
Chen Chi-Mai, who holds a Ph.D. from Columbia, was teaching public law in China at the outbreak of the Japanese War in 1937, when he was asked by the government to head the executive council of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. In 1944, he was appointed Counsellor to the Chinese Embassy in Washington. He attended the Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco conferences as a member of the Chinese delegation, and is now China's representative to UNRRA and to the Emergency Food Committee...
...resisted admixture for thousands of years although they were nominally "conquered" by the Han Emperor, Wu Ti (B.C. 140-87). The Manchu Emperor Ch'ien Lung waged savage war against the Miao in the 18th Century, but there has been no violent friction since, except for a brief outbreak in 1832. The tribesmen live mainly in the hills of far southwestern China. Both Yi and Miao have maintained their own tribal governments, customs and dress. They pan gold and hunt animals, trading metal and furs with the plains people for manufactured goods. They farm and raise sheep, spinning...