Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Franny Chen, reserve center-forward, scored the second goal on a set up pass from let outside Bill Dawson. Dawson rolled the ball to Chen who was standing three yards in front of the MIT goal and Chen tapped it into the nets...
...Harvard lineup: Batchelder, g; Drake, Wogan, rf; Scully, Dean, Schoch, if; Mudd, Seamans, Bell, rh; Louria, Harrop, ch; Miller, Carswell, Saul, lh; Heisler, Wolf, Spivak, ro; Weiss, ri; Estin, Chen, cf; Potter, Gilbert, li; Dawson...
...generals' attention was focused on the area round Suchow, key to Nanking and the Yangtze Valley, now threatened by 185,000 Communist troops under General Chen Yi. As one minister put it: "Manchuria is a limb that has been amputated. The body can live, despite amputation. North China is another limb, and even that may be sacrificed. But Central China is the Nationalist heart-and if the heart is pierced the body dies...
...defend China's heart, the Gimo had disposed 400,000 troops in the flat, rich, water-laced plains around Suchow. At week's end, as his soldiers met the first shock of Chen Yi's armies, Chiang made one more effort to rally his people around him. At a Kuomintang meeting in Nanking, Chiang cried: "Our war against the Communist rebels is a national war, a continuation of the war of resistance against the Japanese . . . We must be ready for a struggle of eight years or more against the Communists . . . The government is determined to fight...