Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After twelve days of bitter fighting, both sides were in precarious positions. One of Chiang's armies had been cut off, and two others that tried to rescue it had exposed salients. The Red generals Chen Yi and Liu Po-cheng were trying to reinforce their badly mauled forces; the Communist supply lines from the north were long, and open to air attack in coverless terrain...
...left flank, to the north, were four Communist columns under Red General Chen Yi. Chiu's right flank to the south was menaced by another eight columns of Chen's troops. Ahead, Li and Chiu faced three strong Communist defense lines between them and the beleaguered General Huang. "This is the bitterest fighting I have ever experienced," said General Li. "I have orders from the Generalissimo to advance at any cost. Communists we have captured say they have been told to fight to the death to hold the line." In eight days Li had advanced ten miles...
Next year's captain of the soccer team will be one of nine lettermen. Loring Batchelder, Rick Drake, Mike Scully, Dick Saul, Jon Spivak, Bill Gilbert, Franny Chen, Dick Wallace, and Jim Bell are all in line for the 1949 leadership...
Suchow, junction point of the south-north rail line from Nanking and the east-west Lunghai line to the coast, is a drab, unlovely city, protected by a rim of well-fortified, rocky hills. By week's end Communist General Chen Yi's mobile columns had swung around Suchow, cut all rail lines and brought the main airfield under artillery bombardment. Officers of Nationalist "Bandit Suppression Headquarters" hastily flew south to set up quarters nearer Nanking...
Those who won Harvard letters were: Batchelder, Drake, Scully, Mudd, Seamans, Louria, Miller, Carswell, Saul, Heisler, Spivak, Gilgert, Weiss, Estin, Chen, Potter, Dawson, Johnson, Wallace, Wolf, Bell, Schoch, Ragle, and Harshman...