Usage examples of "cholon".
She checked the Teletypes to see if anything had come up during the night, but other than a plastique bomb in a bar, and a street fight in Cholon, everything had been peaceful.
And then I got arrested by the White Mice, who put me in a Chinese jail for a year in Cholon until they found somebody who would buy my ass out.
What this Monroney guy was offering was the first sensible proposition Malachi had seen since coming to this crazy country, an dover the next two and a half years, Malachi made more money than he had ever dreamed of making in ten careers in the Army--in cash, nice, green, untaxable cash, complete with accommodating Chinese bankers in Cholon who could move things around a network of extremely discreet banks all over the world.
B Company lived in the Capital Hotel in Cholon, the Chinese section of Saigon.
They had straw mats, and especially in Cholon where I lived, it was a poor part of town, and there were a lot of refugees that just lived on the streets.
He remembered a seedy shooting range inside a steaming, tin-roofed building in the Cholon section of Saigon.
At two in the morning they found themselves, feeling no pain, somewhere in Cholon, the Chinese quarter of Saigon across the river.
Hee brought the pipe every afternoon around three -- even on the day his house in Cholon was hit by a rocket -- and the guests lay down in silence to receive the magic smoke.
June, 1963, when he was driving back to the embassy after buying himself half a dozen new sports shirts from his Chinese tailor in Cholon, a Buddhist monk had walked across the road in front of him in just the same way, swinging a petrol can.
It was one of those bizarre twists of destiny in which he had become inextricably entangled, the moment he had stepped out of his car on the Cholon Road and tried to prevent that monk from doing what he believed he had to do.
It wove its way through the narrow, crowded streets of Cholon and then across the river into the equally chaotic streets of downtown Saigon.
As they drove towards Cholon, it was the Rhodesian who asked the questions.
One night in Cholon, the Chinese quarter, at dinner with eight or nine of my male friends, she happened to ask each of them their marital status.
I didn't even mention him to Phuong, when we sat down to lunch together in our room over the rue Catinat and she wore her best flowered silk robe because it was two years to a day aij^ we had met in the Grand Monde in Cholon.