Word: communique
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Then, just as quickly and to the tune of triumphant Chungking communiqués, they drew back again, holding the important lakehead town of Hwa-jung (pronounced hwa-roong). The Chinese mounted diversionary attacks farther north, on the line between Ichang and Anlu...
...general or a second lieutenant or a private. WTe Americans brag too much about ourselves before we know what we are talking about, and we get some awful let-downs." > A high-ranking officer recently returned from overseas: "Any attempt we made to get the blunt truth into our communiqués was blocked. Most of us believed the American people could take it, but the tendency in higher quarters was to shield the people from the hard, cruel facts. . . . Whether this was deliberate shielding of the people, or an attempt by the area command to look good...
...Army public-relations office will from time to time issue communiqués, which will, of course, be official...
...gains of summer were now nearly consumed by the losses of winter. Berlin's communiqués intoned a refrain: "In order to shorten the front . . . the German troops, obeying orders, are withdrawing to a new, shortened line. . . . Movements of our troops continued without interruption by the enemy...
...Navy communiqués have not yet credited Army bombers with sinking the battleship but other sources have verified it as "one of the great air stories of the war," a feat of one Bombardment Group (designation secret). It was the high mark in the crack battle record of that group and its Flying Fortresses. From their arrival on Guadalcanal in August until November, they had met the enemy 500 times, shot down 113 Jap planes, destroyed 13 more on the ground...