Word: cementation
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...greatly things were upside down in the politically more important area between Shanghai and Nanking. Chinese leaders have been talking for weeks about how their troops would be able to hold "for six months" against Japanese onslaughts "the Chinese Hindenburg Line," Fushan-Soochow-Kashing. Its thousands of cement pillbox forts built upon hummocks in swampy terrain appeared most formidable, and bulwark of this Hindenburg Line was Soochow. Fortnight ago Chinese dignitaries appealed to foreigners to urge their governments to ask the Japanese to "spare highly cultured Soochow the horrors of bombing"-not that these Chinese doubted it could and would...
Significantly the Premier spoke of those involved and arrested as "criminals," strictly abstained from hinting that the State had uncovered a political conspiracy. The seized arms were of German, British, Italian manufacture. Some of the arms caches resembled cement pillbox forts, some contained radio equipment, and detectives were tracing private telephone wires they had discovered. Most neutral Paris correspondents agreed with the New York Times that it was too early to guess whether what had been partially uncovered was the makings of a coup d'etat or simply the stock in trade of French smugglers busy catering...
...fellowships were established by the will of Lady Julia Henry in order to "cement the bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States...
With three police cars as escort, the "farmers" rolled into Eugene. Up Skinner's Butte charged a squad with pails of paint, daubing the University of Oregon's yellow cement ''O'' on the hillside with Oregon State's vivid orange. The procession tooted on to University of Oregon's campus. With the exception of a stubborn professor who continued to lecture to his class on the French Revolution, most Oregonian faculty and students had rushed pell-mell from their classes to repulse the invaders. At the law school an Oregonian turned...
Across the street three boys were rolling beer cans on the sidewalk; they sounded hollow against the rough cement...