Word: eastward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years later a ribbon of road was slowly unwinding eastward from India. It was Stilwell's road back. His uniform was the same, except that now he wore a Chinese cap. He was always too close to the front to wear the stars of his rank. Once, as he passed a working party of U.S Negro engineer troops, one remarked: "Look at that poor old man. Some draft boards will do anything...
This threat was made of sterner stuff than the more spectacular ultimatum to the Yugoslavs. The U.S. frontier had once been established on the Rhine. Now it had been moved eastward as far as the Black...
...Berlin Bureau, summed up one result of 13 months of occupation: "In spite of the well-planned, well-executed maneuvers of Germany's powerful Communist Party, in spite of the vacillations and muddiness of Anglo-American policy, the people of Germany and Central Europe are looking westward, not eastward, for their future...
Questions echoed in the streets-echoed those Germans who argue for ties with the west, echoed the eastward-looking propaganda of the new Fusion Party, echoed the late Dr. Goebbels on the inevitable clash between the east and the west from which Germany might again rise...
...main mass of the population . . . did not give opposition," their "autonomous" republics were expunged by Moscow. Charged with treason, sabotage and collaboration, an estimated 400,000 men, women & children were driven from the land on which their ancestors had lived for untold generations, and ordered to trek eastward. Where? Nobody knew-probably to the vast Kazak steppes beyond the Caspian...