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indochina
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Indochina (also Indo-China ) may refer to: Indochina , region in Southeast Asia, also known as Mainland Southeast Asia and sometimes as Farther India Indochinese Peninsula , peninsula in Southeast Asia French Indochina , grouping of French colonies and ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1886, from Indo-, comb. form of Greek Indos "India" + China . Name proposed early 19c. by Scottish poet and orientalist John Leyden, who lived and worked in India from 1803 till his death at 35 in 1811.
Usage examples of indochina.
That fall, the United States urged Nationalist China, put temporarily in charge of the northern part of Indochina by the Potsdam Conference, to turn it over to the French, despite the obvious desire of the Vietnamese for independence.
In fact, China, Korea, Indochina, the Philippines, represented local Communist movements, not Russian fomentation.
England occupied the southern part of Indochina and then turned it back to the French.
Senator Edward Kennedy did not speak out, nor did other Senators who during the Vietnam war had influenced Congress to ban further military action in Indochina but now said their own legislation did not apply.
Korea that killed several million people, that Johnson and Nixon carried out a war in Indochina in which perhaps 3 million people died, that Reagan invaded Grenada, Bush attacked Panama and then Iraq, and Clinton bombed Iraq again and again.
And one some years ago, when Fenner had been interested in the Far East, on Indochina just before the French backed out.
French left off, CIA operations continued in Indochina after the fall of Dien Bien Phu.
Bien Hoa Air Base near Saigon, and later moved to Thailand, the U-2s in Indochina were now the responsibility of the Strategic Air Command, not the CIA.
China, guarantee peace in Indochina for the foreseeable future, and insure a strong and friendly ally, in Japan, as kingpin of the East.
I remember telling him once how interesting I thought it was that the first use of zero as a number probably took place a great deal earlier than the usual estimates would have it and in Indochina no less, where we can imagine a sort of common abstract boundary between the Taoist concept of emptiness and the Hindu notion of void.
In the Transvaal, Mexico, Europe, Indochina, the East African rift valley.
I admit to having been in the killing business for a while, in Indochina, I am now back in the helluva story business.
On some of in Peru, in Egypt, in Indochina, in North America--some the islands in Polynesia.
We have imported a thousand bone fed, blue ribbon Latahs from Indochina.
Sharon told me that Craig wept like a baby, when they thought Sandy had bought the farm in Indochina, and she and the kids wound up comforting him.