Word: bloodless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forces composed of ground, naval and air elements. Subject to weather that will permit landings, it is anticipated that the instrument of surrender will be signed within ten days. ... It is my earnest hope that pending the formal. . . surrender, armistice conditions may prevail on every front and that a bloodless surrender may be effectuated...
When the curtain was lifted on Rangoon there were surprisingly few Japs around. Some 30,000 of the enemy remained in Burma, but many of them were cut off by the sea to the west, their escape routes to Thailand sealed. If the almost bloodless taking of Rangoon was an anticlimax to the bloody battles that had been fought for Mandalay and the roads southward, the strategic results were even more satisfactory than had been hoped...
Hope for the Best is a pretty arid comedy. Almost void of plot, it vainly falls back on its second line of defense- its bloodless, undramatic characters; then on its third line- its ideas and talk. The ideas, involving democracy now and to come, are sound but superimposed. The talk, though sometimes diverting and sometimes sharp, is eventually just engulfing...
...Chinese. An interpreter rendered it into faultless English. Then Pat Hurley presented his credentials. One formal hand shake was called for; the Ambassador added another for friendship's sake. As the Generalissimo lowered his hand, observers saw that Hurley's martial pressure had left it white and bloodless. But Chiang's face beamed...
Memel and Memel territory (a narrow strip of land along the Niemen's north bank) are old East Prussian land. They were given to Lithuania after World War I; Hitler took them back by a bloodless coup in the spring of 1939. Fighting for Memel as desperately as they fought for Aachen on the west front, the Germans last week threw in four reinforcement divisions, launched 30 counterattacks in one day. They even attempted, vainly, an amphibious attack behind the Russian lines. At week's end Bagramian isolated the post by a drive south of it which reached...