Upon receiving intelligence reports about the massing of enemy paratroopers, General Peng Dehuai posted a defence regiment at Yan'an airfield, and requested that Mao leave Yan'an as soon as possible.

On the first night of the antimakeup crusade, policewomen kept close watch over the city's train stations. Now go right back and wash your face, one of the policewomen told a rosy-cheeked 16-year-old coming out of a restroom.

These fishermen procure from a boiling-down establishment, where diseased sheep, oxen, and horses are reduced to glue and other useful articles, the residuum, an awfully stinking substance called Hashmagandy,[…].

Eggie, who cursed me for my dread fascination with churches, spires, and cathedrals, and such, ordered to hold my head straight as he sketched a neutral diagram of me under a violet ruby cross in the wuthering light, joking a bit that I looked like a weathered fat lady that was floating in mid-air.