Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...central sectors progress was uniform. British, Chinese and U.S. columns pushed south on three main routes toward Mandalay and Lashio. To the east, fighting swirled around the alternate north branch of the Burma Road. Jap suicide garrisons were entrenched in Namhkam and Wanting. But Namhkam was bypassed as a column of American-trained, U.S.-equipped Chinese troops crossed the Burma border into Yünnan. Other Chinese, from the opposite direction, were assaulting Wanting, and when this fell, the Ledo-Burma route for a road and pipeline to nourish the armies of China would be opened...
...that score evidence already existed, especially in the air branch, that the Navy meant what it said. The Navy's roster listed many a naval air reservist of captain's rank. Two former aviation reservists who stayed in after the last war were al ready respected flag officers: Rear Admiral George Henderson, Rear Admiral Alfred M. Pride...
...school board at Vanceburg, in Kentucky's Lewis County, ordered Joseph Johnson to send his three children back to school. Johnson, a stern 65-year-old man of the hills, just did not believe the school board understood the situation. His three sons had to walk along a branch and down a holler and did not get home until after dark. He sent his 26-year-old son, Orville, to town on muleback to explain about the wildcat...
...were filled with hand-carved wooden gifts flown from wounded servicemen at Lowry Field, Colo., a wheelbarrow, a tommygun, a family of walking ducks. There was a black cocker spaniel from one of Father Hoffman's fellow workers at the Union Pacific Railroad, and a tree-size fir branch from the Cheyenne Park Department...
...Saturday, Nubbins' father had worked in the kitchen, hanging ornaments on the fir branch and answering the side door every time the postman, the delivery boy or the expressman knocked. His mother sat beside the crib in the living room while Nubbins took special pains to be a "good boy"; he rolled over for his nap without argument and listened quietly as Mother read The Night before Christmas...