Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Part dragon, part turtle, and surmounted by a 13 foot shaft, the Chinese dragon monument causes hundreds of passers-by to stop and blink in amazement every day as they approach Widener Library from the west side of the Yard...
Warsaw was in flames. The partisanforces of General Bor which nearly four weeks ago had risen at the approach of the Red armies, fought fires and Germans with equal gallantry. From housetops they dropped Molotov cocktails on Germantanks. Their women operated 100 field kitchens and first-aid posts.Unable to reach Warsaw's cemeteries, they buried their dead in parks and public squares. Their food and water were running short...
...donkey"). Communists say they once counted 70,000 loafers, that now there are only a few hundred. These diehards must wear a big white erh-lü-tze badge, are fair game for anyone's hoots and jeers. But this year an official thought up a subtler approach...
Hamilton played with deliberation, not to say calculation. More than once he paced off 100 yards to the green, then came back, made a high, deadly approach shot. The crowd got impatient. But Nelson got the jitters. He missed three 2-ft. putts, lost the match and the $3,500 first prize, one down...
...Japs could seize the whole railroad, and mop up eastern China at their leisure, Chennault would lose vital bases in Kiwangsi, Fukien and Chekiang provinces from which his patrols now fan out over Shanghai, Hong Kong and the South China Sea. If these fields are lost, an approach to the China coast by westbound Nimitz-MacArthur forces will be immeasurably more difficult...