Word: tsingtao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bill tells it now, in 1929 he saw the stock-market crash coming at him one way and talkies the other, so he broke up the old act and left the country. With his wife, he drifted east via South Africa and Australia, did routines in Peking, Tsingtao, Manila, Java and Shanghai. Then he put in two weeks at Singapore's famed Raffles Hotel, looked over the city and decided: "This is the place...
...fabled restaurants, pored over cookbooks. For Dick's tenth birthday party he whipped out a succulent Lobster Newburg ("not exactly for a kid's stomach, but that's what he wanted"). Permanently intrigued, Dick thenceforth stirred while "The Skipper" mixed the local delicacies of Manila, Tsingtao or New Orleans. In Panama, on lazy Saturday afternoons, the gourmets caught and charcoal-grilled barracuda, red snapper or king mackerel together off Farallón Sucio...
...First Division. He invaded Guam at the head of the First Provisional Marine Brigade. In the last months of the war, he fought 82 days across Okinawa with his last and biggest command, the Sixth Marine Division. After the war, Shepherd moved on to China, commanded the Marines at Tsingtao. He was chief of Fleet Marine Forces, Pacific, in the summer of 1950, when the wire came from Washington: the North Koreans had invaded South Korea...
...frame-up" and scorned it as an "amateurishly staged presentation . . ." The Communists, in turn, denounced Ridgway's reply as "savage" and "contemptible," charged further attempts to murder Communist personnel by U.S. and South Korean "plainclothesmen," and accused U.N. air commanders of sending planes over Shanghai and Tsingtao. In one message from Kim II Sung and Peng Teh-huai to Ridgway, they gave away what really seemed to be worrying them: "You have the audacity to regard yourselves as the victors...
...People's Army had grabbed them almost as soon as they landed-ignominiously out of gas-on a beach near Tsingtao; to their amazement they were treated simultaneously as prisoners of war and as friends and possible converts. They were marched off to a distant village, but were neither jailed nor put to work. Their guards-soldiers, who "would have made a Marine top sergeant blow his top"-supplied them with rice, gave them fish and meat when it was available...