Word: events
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Self-Defense." Having stated his terms, and offered, for the record, to step down in the wildly improbable event that they were accepted, Chiang returned to a more familiar line: "I firmly believe," he insisted, "that the government will win out in the end . . . The people of the nation should realize that only by carrying on this war of self-defense can a real peace be secured...
Victory in the event entitles one to have his name engraved on a trophy which is stored in Manchester, Vermont, between races...
...scorer on the five-man Crimson team and thirteenth man in the tournament. He took seventh place in the cross country and tenth place in the down hill. Dee Bogert, number two man on the team, was twenty-first in the meet and captured eighth place in the slalom event...
...armies-were winning a victory for which they could thank the stupidities of their opponents as much as their own skill. History, which would be little concerned with the "whys," might still record the loss of China-if it was to be a loss-as 1948's major event and major catastrophe. Journalism could certainly record Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh as Communism's Men of the Year...
...cheek: "We should not be surprised to hear . . . that the intellectuals had discovered Mr. Capp's opera, and that words like dichotomy, plangent and ambivalent were being thrown at him, wrapped in pages from Kafka and Dostoevski . . . The Life & Times of the Shmoo is a cultural event of enormous significance...