Word: canton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...punishment to the crime. Limited targets in the Korea and Indo-China crises, for example, were selected in the event that retaliation became necessary. "They were specific targets reasonably related to the area. They did not involve massive destruction of great population centers like Shanghai, Peking or Canton. Retaliation must be on a selective basis. The important thing is that the aggressor know in advance that he is going to lose more than he can win. He doesn't have to lose much more. It just has to be something more. If the equation is such that the outcome...
...wife again two weeks ago in Canton, when negotiations started for the Bradshaws' release. "I know she recognized me, because tears came to her eyes," said he. "But it did not really register with her." It will take some time before his wife even realizes that she is free; last week, under treatment in the hospital at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, she was reported to be "periodically aware." Said Missionary Bradshaw: "I have just as much love for the Chinese people as ever, but for the gang that kidnaped us I have nothing but loathing...
Last month, after the Russian fair moved on to a specially built $2,000,000 pavilion in Canton, the Red propagandists decided to go after more skeptical game -the free Chinese in nearby Hong Kong and Macao...
...summer afternoon in 1890, a gawky farm hand named Denton True Young came down from "the Ohio hills to try out as a pitcher for the Canton baseball team of the Tri-State League. He had no uniform, and the Canton manager did not even bother to use a catcher. One of the team's best batters simply stood in front of the grandstand, and the kid started firing the ball past him. The batter never got a piece of it, and the big farmer's fast ball almost tore up the grandstand backboard. "Looks like a cyclone...
That summer Cy Young pitched 26 full games and finished ten others. A little later the league folded, and Canton's owner got a new suit of clothes for trading Cy to Cleveland, then in the National League...