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...tung had issued marching orders to his troops. On Oct. 26 Red troops crossed the Yalu River. On Dec. 31, they drove over the parallel on the heels of the U.N.'s retreating forces. Their proclaimed objective, in the words of Radio Peking: "To liberate Korea . . . and crush the aggression of the imperialists...
...Tune. Last week she opened a four-week run in a smart East Side Manhattan nightclub, is nightly tearing the heart out of the old Gershwin and Rodgers & Hart tunes that have always been her favorites, e.g., Glad to Be Unhappy, Manhattan, and I've Got a Crush...
...family ran a small textile mill in Hupei province. Lin got his early military training at Whampoa Academy, the Nationalist school set up with Soviet Russian help in the 1920s. One of his instructors was Chiang Kaishek. Between 1947 and 1949, Lin led his new Manchurian army southward to crush Chiang's forces at Mukden, Peking and Tientsin...
...professor of esthetics and philosophy at Geneva, whose one book, Amiel's Journal, influenced many 19th Century British liberals. Amiel was more "neutral" than Attlee's quotation indicated. Elsewhere in his Journal Amiel had this to say about Americans: "They must win gold, predominance, power; crush rivals, subdue nature. They have their heart set on the means and never...think of the end...They are eager, restless, positive, because they are superficial. To what end all this stir, noise, greed, struggle...
...Fanatics and profiteers, princes and foreign agents were also working overtime to stir up the sepoys. By the time Savage had it all deciphered, it was too late. The mutiny burst across Bengal, and hundreds of men, women & children were slaughtered before the British brought in enough reinforcements to crush it and execute the mutineers by cannonfire...