Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco attorney, Chickering had traveled in Europe and Asia, had gone to Hotchkiss and Yale. In 1938 he had married Audrey Madden. When the news of her husband's death came, she was living in Piedmont, Calif., with their four-year-old son. Last week she said: "He had to go back to the Pacific. He had seen it start there and it was logical...
...west, in Burma, five Japanese divisions had been destroyed, but five remained. They were all but cut off, and likely to be left for their nuisance value. In the rest of Southeast Asia were at least five more Jap divisions, plus brigades of garrison troops. The enemy was not ready to abandon Southeast Asia. In China he was busy tearing up spur lines to get ties and rails for completing the overland route to Indo-China. The only purpose of this line, if it is ever opened, would be to drag out resistance in the vast peninsula...
Starved of gasoline and everything else that an air force needs, because it all had to be flown over the Hump, the 20th Bomber Command in China and India had run up, by year's end, a tally of 23 assaults on Japan and Jap arsenals in Asia. The bombs dropped totaled about 5,000 tons-no more than a single major R.A.F. strike over Europe's shorter hauls. But in those tentative stabs, the Superfort flyers had learned to know their planes-and the Japs' defenses...
...Hurley and Major General Albert C. Wedemeyer (Chiang's chief of staff), he says: "We are on intimate terms. They see the main issues and they see them clearly." For T.V. still believes what he used to say in pre-Pearl Harbor days: "The wars in Europe and Asia are parts of one great struggle-the struggle of democracy against totalitarian aggression. In this struggle China fights on the side of the democracies...
...story being at that time synonymous, the two principal epics of the ancient world were put together and attributed to a poet called Homer. Both poems related adventures incidental to a ten years' war that had been fought by the chivalry from the Peloponnesus against the chivalry of Asia Minor at a walled town, Troy, near the entrance to the Dardanelles. The Odyssey told of the wanderings of the Greek soldier, Odysseus, on his way home to the island of Ithaca (now Corfu); the Iliad told of the wrath of Achilles and what came of it at the siege...