Word: atop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rifle, were flung against advancing Japanese regulars, and horribly butchered. The crack, German-drilled Chinese 88th Division under ruthless officers, conserving its own strength, drove the Chinese recruits forward and shot in the back those who broke and ran. Twelve miles from Nanking 300 Chinese were surrounded atop a hill by Japanese who set fire to the long grass. It set fire to the trees, burned fiercely completely around the hill, slowly forcing the 300 Chinese to the top. There Japanese machine guns firing into the ring of fire & smoke, killed them almost...
Skling was good on open slopes at Plymouth, with four inches of powder atop a two inch base. Mount Mansfield reported seven inches of powder, and Pinkham Notch five...
...drama was completed last week as 20 persons, none of importance, witnessed the second marriage of the young man who might have been Regent and perhaps later Emperor celebrated quietly in a small chapel atop the Kahlenberg. Mourned the Jewish-owned New York Times: "By his new marriage the Prince has sealed his fate as a possible leader of a compromise movement between clerico-fascism on the Italian model and pure German Naziism, since his bride is of Jewish descent...
Just inside the neutral Settlement, atop an exposed tower, the London Daily Telegraph's, ace Correspondent Philip Pembroke Stephens, who recently flew from London to Hong Kong to cover the war, watched the capture of Shanghai with seven other whites. In the ensuing lull some 20 minutes later a U. S. patrol saw blood dripping from the tower, climbed up to find Pembroke Stephens lying dead amid six crouching survivors so terrified that at first they could not believe the fighting was over and the city quiet at last after 89 days' siege. Japanese machine gun bullets...
...Soviet Union from coast to coast. Like Louis XIV of France, Le RoiSoleil ("The Sun King"), Dictator Stalin is the actual Sun around which Communist constellations revolve, might say truly if he liked "L'etat c'est moi." One day last week Sun Stalin stood refulgent atop the Red Square tomb of Lenin and more than 1,750,000 Soviet citizens marched past him carrying flags and banners. Meanwhile, Madrid had devoted the whole week to Leftist Spain's celebration of the 20th anniversary of Russia's Communist revolution...