Word: 54th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tsaolaochi, a grey brick station-house with a mud-walled village behind it, Nationalist forces had just set up a forward headquarters. Under General Li Yen-nien, commander of the Sixth Army Group, two field armies, the 99th. and the 54th, about 50,000 strong, were pressing northwestward in an attempt to join hands with the Twelfth Nationalist Army Group at Suhsien, 25 miles away. In a battered G.M.C. ten-wheeler truck, we lurched after them...
...part, Joe looks with awe on Broadway footlights and the people who work behind them. In Manhattan, he lives in a 54th Street apartment hotel, not far from the theatrical swirl, and he sees as many plays as he can (some recent favorites: High Button Shoes, Show Boat, Annie Get Your...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor celebrated the Duke's 54th birthday at the Stork Club, next day sailed off for their occasional home in France, with a modest retinue and 120 pieces of luggage...
...Hand. In Medellin, Colombia, Candido Zapata, 81, veteran of four marital ventures, attended the christening of his 54th child...
...54th lap, his Ferrari skidded out of control. In the stands by the waterfront, Monte Carlo's glossy postwar idlers gasped and screamed. Igor's auto spun crazily and came to rest, backside-forward against a pile of straw. Slowly, with compressed lips, the prince emerged from his wrecked car, walked with dignity into the bar of the Hotel de Paris and was not seen again...