Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Li Tsung-jen consolidated his political camp, there came menacing news from across the Yangtze. The Reds were shifting armies closer to Nanking; along roads north of the river a steady stream of rice-laden wheelbarrows and donkey carts were building up Communist food reserves. Engines were being dismounted from trucks for installation in river craft. To aid their battle of ideas, the Reds were cocking...
...circus, ain't it?" grinned Umpire Jocko Conlan as he looked over the Brooklyn Dodgers' training camp at Vero Beach, Fla. Some observers disagreed: it reminded them more of Willow Run or an Army basic training center. Whatever the word for Vero Beach, Dodger Boss Branch Rickey, the foxy grandpa of baseball, had brought mass production to spring baseball training...
Where the average big league club had taken a few score ballplayers to camp this month, Rickey had assembled more than 200-from Dodger Captain Pee Wee Reese down to raw bushers* trying to make the grade in the Dodger farm system at such places as Mobile, Ala., Ponca City, Okla. and Cairo, Ill. It took organization to keep that many players throwing, batting and listening to the oldtimers. Rickey had it all worked...
Turncoat. In Snow Hill, N.C., Virginia police who had searched more than two years for Escaped Convict Tommy Hill finally found him working as a guard at a North Carolina state prison camp...
...fire-eating, conscienceless nationalist speaks shrilly from the past. Standing a stone's throw from the infamous Dachau, where a refugee camp now huddles, I listened to the booming voice of Franz Jilka: "Give us another war!" Jilka is one of three million Sudeten Germans driven from Czechoslovakia after the last war. He is an old Social Democrat, 64, grizzled, tough and thirsting for revenge. "Would I fight!" he exclaimed. "Give me the chance! All three million of us are waiting for the war-that is the only way we can get back our land. Give us the arms...