Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only one ship from the U.S. had docked in Honolulu in six weeks. Foodstuffs were dangerously, low (90% are imported); little businesses were closing down, bigger businesses were laying off employes. The loss of $5,000,000 in wages by about 28,000 sugar workers was a crippling blow...
Russia's tide was no longer rising in expansionist flood. Winds of ambition and intransigence might blow again from Moscow; carelessness or stupidity or complacency might breach again, and wider, the West's dikes. But last week it looked as if the worst had passed, and that Russia was resigned-for a while, at least-to boundaries of power which the rest of the world would consider safe...
Squeeze Play. Strategically, the fall of Antung was a greater blow to the Communists than Kalgan, where they had lost land communications between Yenan and their Manchurian headquarters, Harbin. Across the 240-mile-wide neck of the Yellow Sea a great fleet of junks had plied, bringing captured Japanese arms to the Shantung Communists, ferrying Eighth Route Army soldiers to Manchuria. The Nationalist Victory pocketed the Shantung Reds between the Tsingtao-Tsinan Railway and the sea; and in Manchuria, it strengthened the Government flank for the ultimate drive north on Harbin...
Other observations of F.D.R.: EURJ "He never resented any blow that landed above the belt. [But] his irritation was invariably stirred by the mean and little. Being 'nibbled to death by ducks' was the way he phrased it." CJ He signed the bill authorizing the Chemical Warfare Service with horror and disgust. CWS's results, says Mclntire, "were and are, in my opinion, more . . . devastating than the atomic bomb. . . ." CJ He was contemptuous of his own safety, saying "If anyone wants to kill me, there is no possible way to prevent him." When
Four times during the game, the Freshmen drove to within 20 yard of the enemy goal line, only to lose the ball on downs or pass interceptions. In the first period, they were held for four downs on the one-yard line, but the biggest blow of all came as the clock ran out unexpectedly to end the game with the first-year men driving on the Jayvee...