Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...economical alternative, he suggested a new $125,000,000 lock for the Panama Canal.* The President, it was reported, would think about it. Meanwhile, the Navy demonstrated to their own satisfaction, once more, the vulnerability of the present canal to airplane attack. Army engineers begged to differ, with everybody, grouchily suggested that the talk of a Nicaragua canal was plain politics. They pointed out that a canal through Nicaragua would have to penetrate the mountain backbone of that country where it would be exposed to the danger of frequent earthquakes, that it would cost five or more times as much...
...able to walk, continuing to return the Chinese fire. At Socony Hall, Mrs. Davis, the other women refugees and the children crowded into a spacious bathroom, lay down on the floor. The children, unconcerned, counted the bullets pinging into Socony Hall. Consul Davis parleyed with the Chinese attackers, buying them off from hour to hour, until those at Socony Hall had no more money. Then said a Chinese: "We don't want money, anyway, wei want to kill." Some Chinese Nationalist friends of Consul Davis next arrived, carrying a Nationalist flag. This appeared to displease the attacking Chinese...
Chiang Kai-shek explained his plan. It depended on his ability to fire his 10,000 soldiers with sufficient enthusiasm to follow him in a direct frontal attack on the walled city of Waichow during which they would nearly all most certainly be killed...
Chiang led the attack. Nine thousand one hundred of his ten thousand men were killed; but he captured Waichow. Strangely he did not lose but rather gained prestige after this prodigious but chery of his own troops, for he had himself fought in the thick of it. The reformed sinner, now a mighty hero, retired after his vic tory to a Buddhist temple for three months, a vacation period of medi tation which he has several times since repeated. The year 1922 found him in Moscow, acting as military liason officer for Dr. Sun, who had despaired by then...
...yesterday's tilt, team A defeated the seconds 6 to 5. Burns and Tobin bore the brunt of the first team attack, each batting out two singles, while Chase with a triple and single, wellded the big stick for team...