Word: epically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheng, parts of it recently marched into Tibet and are lending aid to the Indo-Chinese Reds against the French. Liu trained for his profession at the Red Army Academy in Moscow, once fought with the Red Russians against Manchurian Warlord Chang Tso-lin, led the vanguard of the epic Long March from central China to Yenan in 1934-35, rates as one of the army's boldest tacticians...
...your Dec. 18 cover story on Major General Tunner, you say he was sent to India to take charge of the A.T.C. airlift which flew "the Hump," and quote General Wedemeyer: "Tunner created an epic in air operation...
Small Fry and Magic Cottage lean toward whimsy and traditional fairy tales. Captain Video plunges the adolescent into the science-fiction world of interplanetary travel and electronic marvels. It features epic, if inconclusive struggles between the forces of Good, headed by humorless Captain Video, and Evil, personified by a hand-rubbing eccentric named Doctor Pauli who, as president of the Astrodial Society, pettishly wants to destroy the earth...
...plain. Frantic photographers called to the bedraggled men, asked them to "wave and look happy." They obliged. The triumph was marred by more than 30% casualties, but the bulk of the marine division's and the 7th's survivors had reached safety and warmth. It was an epic of great suffering and great valor...
...which flew "the Hump" between Assam and Kunming in China. The month that Will Tunner took command, the Hump lift carried 23,700 tons of supplies; eleven months later, it moved 69,300 tons. Said Lieut. General Albert Wedemeyer, then commander of U.S. forces in China: "Tunner created an epic in air operation...