Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with arms and supplies shipped in along a reopened Burma Road and an expanded airline over the Hump. While ill-supplied Chinese were dying hopelessly at Kweilin, well-supplied Chinese were fighting hopefully and successfully in the jungles of Burma, closing in on Bhamo, terminus of the northern (alternate) branch of the Burma Road...
Meanwhile moderate Premier George Papandreou, who had arrived with the British troops, reorganized his Cabinet. He refused to grant EAM more than five of the 28 Cabinet portfolios. Reportedly, he won EAM's agreement to a gradual disarming of its military branch, the ELAS. Said Greek leftists sourly: such concessions had "lost the revolution...
...slapped his leg. "Yes, sir," he said, "this is fine." He recognized the grizzled porter, Lawrence Ervin, as he stepped up with a bottle of bonded bourbon. Said the old man, "Hello there, boy. How are you coming along? Glad to see you. Put a little branch water in there, son, yes sir. Harry, I never felt better in my life. I'll be 76 next month and I'm gonna live to 93. I get to bed early-and I still drink whiskey. Couldn't live to 93 if I didn't." He tossed...
After hearing the Navy's announcement, the Coast Guard, usually the most liberal branch of service with regard to Negroes, promptly followed suit with a similar plan for the SPARs. The Marine Corps said it had all the women marines it needed, except for replacements...
Alberta's plan, fundamentally the same, provided for election of three special members not by area but by branch of service-one to represent the Army, one Navy, one R.C.A.F. Required of voters and candidates: a year's residence in Alberta. Election date: sometime in January...