Chengchow

British  

/ ˈtʃɛŋˈtʃaʊ /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Zhengzhou

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Example Sentences

Sulzberger left China, he wrote a wry piece last November indicating how little he had really been able to observe: "I can only boast I am the first American columnist over 60 to visit Inner Mongolia since 1949, and the first with a Greek wife to lunch in Chengchow."

From Time Magazine Archive

For months the murky floodwaters around the Yellow River, to the north of the Yangtze, have prevented the Japanese from making a widespread onslaught on Hankow but by last week the waters had subsided enough to allow them to set their troops in motion on a 400-mile line, extending from Chengchow on the Yellow River to Teian, 45 miles south of the Yangtze.

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In the offices of the Chungyuen Daily, in Chengchow.

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He could rendezvous with General Liu and then wheel on the pivotal railroad junction of Chengchow.

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Some 200,000 of China's central army's best-equipped troops backed slowly westward along the railway all week, allowing Lanfeng and Kaifeng to fall, finally holed up in Chengchow, and at week's end Japanese bombers hammered at the city.

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