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Word: bengals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short and dismal history of the second Burma campaign the British never had made their purposes clear. A major accomplishment would have been the seizure of the Jap base at Rangoon on the Bay of Bengal. In the end the British would have settled for the little harbor and air base of Akyab, about 325 miles north of Rangoon. But even Akyab now was beyond reach - at least until the end of the monsoon, some time in October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Postponed Decision | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...week's end the British stiffened up. British naval units in the Bay of Bengal helped by shelling the Japs along the seacoast. Allied planes bombed the Jap port of Akyab and pounded communications. But the Jap hold on Burma was unshaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Until October | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

They climbed and climbed. Fourteen days after they had left Shwebo, they reached a mountain village of thatched huts. There they were met by a white man sent by the general commanding supply and transport in the Assam-Bengal area. They were safe, but somehow depressed. Rain fell. In one of the thatched huts the girls sat around an open fire. A voice called: "Jack, Jack, come to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Hike | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

Princeton, resting in second place in the Ivy League behind untouchable Dartmouth, will be out to make life pretty miserable for the Crimson. It was the Varsity quintet, one month ago, which ended a five-game Bengal winning streak, upsetting the Nassaus 36 to 32 in Bunks Burditt's farewell appearance...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: QUINTET TRAVELS TO PRINCETON ON SEASON'S FINAL ROAD TRIP | 3/10/1943 | See Source »

Regaining the rink, Northrup was banished again, for the same offense, and this time Taylor floated one in from the blue line, to give Harvard a 5 to 0 lead. Princeton's lone tally came when Mare Beebe was in the hot house, on a play in which the Bengal forwards were so uncovered that Sally Rand, late of these columns, might well have been envious...

Author: By John C. Bullard m, | Title: Crimson Sextet Overwhelms Tigers 9-1 in Rough, Sloppily Played Game | 2/11/1943 | See Source »

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