Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foretold. Before the quarter-century was done, TIME had tried to comprehend and convey the color, drama and meaning of such far-flung complexities as gangsterism, Franz Kafka, swing music, fancy funerals, Wallis Simpson, Marxism, aerial warfare, soap operas, Arnold Toynbee,* Barbara Hutton, the British spirit, Theodore Bilbo, Chen Li-fu, the Townsend Plan, Suzanne Lenglen, currency devaluation, Aldous Huxley, atomic fission, Jimmy Walker and the Supreme Court...
...Adventists' train came to a dead halt after the first few miles. Communist troops of General Chen Yi questioned them, bragged that the next train would not leave for two years. When Nationalist forces appeared, the Reds withdrew. The Warren party hired pushcarts and continued south. Behind them they heard the gunfire of new attacks, but twice each day they paused for prayer...
...Ultimately You'll Leave." The Lutheran mission church at Hsuchang had originally been a stable. When Chen Yi's troops took Hsuchang for awhile last month they turned it back into a stable. "Instead of pews," said 30-year-old Pastor Anders B. Hansen last week, "there were stalls. . . . Light poured in through a mortar hole in the ceiling, and horses stirred in the stalls. ... It looked like the Christmas scene turned upside down...
Mukden faced immediate tactical decisions. Nationalist generals gathered for a defense conference with sick Manchuria Commander Chen Cheng (stomach ulcers). To discourage looting by the hungry and desperate among Mukden's half million inhabitants, authorities installed a nightly twelve-hour curfew...
Jayvee lineup: Gordon, g; Harrop, Morison, rf; Schock, lf; Langmann, rh; Mudd, ch; Ragle, lh; Chen, Soriano, ro; Gilbert, Jones ri; Wallace, cf; Jessner, lf; Gellert, lo. Freshman lineup: Snook, g; Shafer, rf; Darrell, lf; Sparrow, rh; Gabler, ch; Hansen, lh; Houston, ro; Weiss, ri; Plissner, ch; wolf, Johnson, li; Krogius, Gordon...